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Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)

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What is Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)?

Cisco HyperFlex Systems is a hyper-converged infrastructure product, based on technology acquired with SpringPath (acquired September 2017). Cisco's modern HCI solution is Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix.

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What is Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)?

Cisco HyperFlex Systems was a hyper-converged infrastructure product, based on technology acquired with SpringPath (acquired September 2017). The product is discontinued. Cisco's modern, recommended HCI solution is Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix.

Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued) Features

  • Supported: Unified network fabric
  • Supported: Virtualization optimization
  • Supported: Enterprise data protection
  • Supported: Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC)
  • Supported: Advanced reliability, availability, & serviceability (RAS) features
  • Supported: TPM 1.2 SPI supported

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Cisco HyperFlex Systems is a hyper-converged infrastructure product, based on technology acquired with SpringPath (acquired September 2017). Cisco's modern HCI solution is Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix.

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, VMware vSAN, and Scale Computing Platform are common alternatives for Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued).

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.3.

The most common users of Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Efficient Deployment Process: Users have praised the platform for its quick server deployment, stating that it takes less than 30 minutes to build a server to support their business application.

Ease of Use and Scalability: Reviewers found the platform easy to install, manage, and expand, emphasizing its user-friendly interface and scalability options.

Excellent Storage Capacity: Many users appreciated the platform's excellent storage capacity, which contributes to cost reduction in companies and makes implementation very straightforward.

Seamless Maintenance Processes: Users highlighted that updates and repairs could be done without disruption, showcasing the platform's seamless maintenance processes.

Integration with Cisco Ecosystem: The platform was described as efficient, fast, and integrated well with other Cisco products in the ecosystem.

User-Friendly Interface for End-Users: Users noted that the platform is easy to understand for end-users in terms of technology understanding and activities on both Day-0 and Day-1.

Efficient Snapshots in VMware: Praise was given for efficient snapshots in VMware provided by the platform, enhancing data management capabilities.

Reliable Storage Capabilities: The platform was commended for providing reliable storage solutions that meet user expectations.

Cumbersome Expansion Process: Reviewers have found the expansion process to be cumbersome, requiring capacity management for each cluster. This issue seems more prevalent in smaller implementations, leading to complexities in scaling up infrastructure.

Lack of Documentation and Support: Some users have mentioned the need for more comprehensive documentation and dedicated support channels, particularly when navigating upgrades and integrating with third-party vendors. Additional resources could enhance user experience significantly.

Challenges with On-Prem Deployment: Users have expressed significant challenges with the on-prem deployment method, suggesting a streamlined implementation process. They also noted difficulties in starting clusters due to external DNS and NTP service issues, emphasizing the importance of smoother initial setup procedures.

Reviews

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Cisco HyperFlex Doesn't Disappoint!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 21, 2024
ET
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
2 years of experience
In my organization, we design HyperFlex Solutions and sell them to our customers. We solve a multitude of their business and operational problems, via our Cisco HyperFlex solutions. Some of those problems are lack of computing power in their environment, lack of storage, or primarily network connectivity upgrades.
  • Easy to install
  • Easy to manage
  • Easy to expand
Cisco HyperFlex is well suited for general-purpose scenarios in enterprise companies, as well as niche situations such as gaming companies, off-shore companies, etc. I couldn't fault it.

Cisco HyperFlex - good for smaller, high availability implementations

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 28, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
1 year of experience
HyperFlex was selected to replace aging infrastructure, for its built-in redundancy and reliability. It hosts the VMware environment including web servers, application servers, and database servers.
The challenge we faced with Cisco at the time was that our configuration was the largest deployed. It took time for firmware and other issues to be resolved.
  • Uptime.
  • Redundancy.
  • Small footprint in the data center.
Smaller-scale implementations. It seems to have challenges when you have a lot of nodes in a cluster. SSD storage performs well. If you do have performance issues, they can be very difficult to find. We spent months trying to figure out why copying VMs from other clusters to one specific cluster took so long. Firmware and software updates resolved issues.

At Decsis we manage Cisco solutions to deliver data center services

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 06, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
7 years of experience
My organization Decsis, manages Cisco HyperFlex for public customers providing a cloud of multi/services to shareholders in a multi-site and multi-service ecosystem. Cisco HyperFlex provides the integration, manageability and resilient framework to achieve optimal results and performance for users.
  • Managing
  • Integration
  • Scalability
  • Resilience
Multi-services, multi-org scenario. Complex ecosystems, critical infrastructures like hospitals.

Cisco HyperFlex review

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 19, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
2 years of experience
My Organization uses Cisco HyperFlex to integrate VM and storage resources. We also provide backup. Cisco HyperFlex has a feature to monitor performance and it is easy to capture the data. Efficiency and performance when we make a backup and restore using a minimum time for RTO/RPO. Easy for configuring and managing security.
  • Backup
  • Restore
  • Storage
Easy to use and enable centralized management. It also provides reporting, compliance tracking, and auditing capabilities easy to monitor. When using for Disaster Recovery, using minimum space with a minimum of time. Many agencies are satisfied with the ability to perform backup and restore so it will meet RPO/RTO for certain agencies.

Nodes for robust mission-critical workloads.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 17, 2023
A very flexible and fast system that offers great technical support ready to help at all times. It adapts to the needs of each user since it provides us with high resistance and unmatched security. Without the need to purchase new storage devices and other computing resources, with Cisco HyperFlex we achieve everything, due to its great capacity. We need to have this product in use throughout the company so that all departments can enjoy unmatched results.
  • Excellent storage capacity.
  • Cost reduction in the company.
  • Very easy to implement.
The product that complies with everything offered, so I would buy it again. In the company, we are all satisfied. We know that with the modernization of our infrastructure we achieve a better result in the application and administration of data center environments, optimizing operations in distributed environments is also possible, it is important to know that for a better operation, more than three nodes are implemented to increase range.

Cisco HyperFlex Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 11, 2023
SS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
3 years of experience
We using Cisco HyperFlex to simplify our data centers.
  • So when we need a server for our operation, it just only take less than 30 minutes to build the server to support our business application.
It most appropriate for our enterprise, like our brewery business.

Cisco HyperFlex a revolution for DC infrastructure

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 29, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
2 years of experience
The end customer decides to migrate from Convergence technologies to Hyperconvergence solutions, in order to overcome problems like storage and computer resources because many times these imply purchasing new devices and appliances that maybe will fill physical space on DC, With Cisco HyperFlex they solve this problem just increasing resources as they need and growth within their Virtual infrastructure.
  • VM Snapshots
  • Manage memory resources
  • Excellent Network segmentation
  • Easy to growth resources
Best suited for medium to great scale Virtual infrastructure with a plan for growth and expansion.

Hyperflex Ease of installation

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 09, 2023
ra
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
2 years of experience
Hyperflex is used to facilitate our back-end labs for production and test environments.
  • Ease of installation
  • Management
  • Scalability
small to medium deployments for remote customers that needs a highly available, and remote managed solution.

HyperFlex Can be a solid All in One Virtualization Product

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 08, 2023
ML
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
1 year of experience
We were looking to replace older virtual servers and needed a new approach to handling our data. We are using HyperFlex as our primary UC data center environment. The scalability and ease use of management with Insight allows ease of use with managing VMs and Management of resources across the platform.
  • Resource Management
  • Storage visibility
  • Redundancy
  • Dedublication
If you have an older environment and are looking for an all in one storage/network/vm solution you cannot go wrong with this product. Lets you scale to your needs and add on for future growth. If your needs are more to vSAN needs you will find limitations in this product. I found for a small IT work force, the units, after gathering requirements, were quick and easy to stand up.

Cisco HyperFlex Reviewed in GOI.

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 04, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
1 year of experience
Cisco HyperFlex is being used in a different Govt Project. I got an opportunity to evaluate the system for our feature requirement. The biggest aspect of going for [Cisco] Hyperflex is to eliminate the traditional storage system & to get optimum production from the machines. Hope the new HyperFlex will be there soon in my inventory. I can have a good experience with the same.
  • Eliminated the year old concept of centralize storage system.
  • Onboard storages give tremendous performance.
  • The replication from one site to other is easy.

HyperFlex pros and cons

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 11, 2023
hosting all application in our customers DCs
  • easy to use
  • efficient and fast
  • good integration with the rest of the Cisco ecosystem
mainlny HX + IBM FlashSystem (viia FC where there are NTP and DNS and some VMs with huge amount of not used frequently data) where we host VMs with traditional applications and control plane for Kubernetes/OpenShift.

ok

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 11, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
4 years of experience
Running a testenviroment in it, all in one system
  • allways on
  • all in one
  • can do updates and repairs without the user recorgnize it
building fast and big testenviroments
takes a little to learn to top to bottom

Cisco HyperFlex - A powerhouse of a platform.

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 06, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
5 years of experience
I've deployed HyperFlex to provide compute and storage resources in remote sites and small data centers. It provided a solid platform that was both cost-effective and scalable. This allowed us to move some services closer to users, improving their performance. It was also easy to deploy and manage.
  • Scalable
  • Easy to use.
  • Performance
Smaller sites that would benefit from a cluster of 2-5 nodes. Not saying that it can't scale above that, but I find HyperFlex a great solution for those sites. A simple 3-node edge cluster can provide a huge amount of resources and redundancy. It's also really easy to scale the environment to meet growth requirements.

Simplify our hybrid operations.

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 27, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
1 year of experience
Cisco Hyperflex is one of our favorite tools, which we are using to simplify our hybrid operations and enhance the performance of many other critical applications. We use it for a converged infrastructure system that integrates computing, networking, and storage resources to improve the efficiency of the organization and allow for centralized control that saves a lot of time and resources because no other software is a complete solution like that.
  • Flash
  • Cloud-Enabled.
  • Scale-Out.
  • Software-Defined.
It is the complete package that supports integration, storage resources, and networking in one place, so it saves cost and time to manage different resources and also has a user-friendly interface so that our employees use it easily and we don't need to hire an IT expert for the training process.

Cisco HyperFlex Sweet Spot

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 22, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
2 years of experience
We utilize Cisco HyperFlex to provide our XaaS product to our customers. The interoperability with the various OS versions is a plus. HyperFlex allows us to centrally manage our hardware and customize the hardware to meet our evolving demands via a hyperconverged platform. The ability to virtually add vHBAs and vNICs is invaluable as performance needs grow.
  • Software-defined hardware
  • Centralized management
  • Broad interoperability
Cisco HyperFlex is great in XaaS environments that need to expand and shrink depending upon demand. The movement of Service Profiles between blades provides uptime stability during hardware failures or troubleshooting.

get hyper with hyperflex

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 13, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
5 years of experience
Ease of use quick installation and ready to use
  • Integration with ESXi
  • Install via Installer
  • easy for enduser to understand the technology both Day-0 and Day-1 activities
with the 4.5 version in place, the product is matured but needs some improvement stretched cluster upgrade procedure ( changes to witness VM upgrade from 4.0 to 4.5 is not clear and some of the validation steps are so confusing.

Cisco HyperFlex - "Flex at Ease HyperConverged Infrastructure"

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 12, 2022
NA
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
1 year of experience
We wanted to deploy an agile, efficient, and hybrid IT infrastructure, Cisco HyperFlex met our expected criteria. Cisco HyperFlex supports end-to-end "Intelligent" Automation. Because of this, we simplified the deployment process by configuring intelligent automation. Cisco HyperFlex's Hyperconverged Infrastructure helps us to keep the storage and networking management in a single component. Because of these features, we have reduced the cost of spending to avail multiple storage disks. The encryption/security provided by Cisco HyperFlex is too secured, and the VDI and DAAS(Desktop as a Service) are literally great.
  • Cisco HyperFlex supports end-to-end intelligent automation
  • Documentation of the deployment process is simple and easy to understand for new users.
  • Will be able to automate the deployment process
  • Will be able to provide the support to business faster as it is based on the "Hyperconverged Infrastructure" principle
Cisco HyperFlex is well suited if you are looking for agile, efficient, and Hybrid IT infrastructure. Cisco HyperFlex exclusively supports Hyperconverged Infrastructure, so we can gain agile, efficient, and quick deployment. If you are looking to reduce the power and cooling costs, then it's the ultimate solution to avail. When comes to any software supporting the business with high efficiency and speed is important and these can be achieved by HyperFlex. As it is Hybrid infrastructure will be able to manage everything in one place and we can eliminate the extra costs spent for buying other physical disks.

Cisco Hyperflex

Rating: 6 out of 10
January 17, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
3 years of experience
We resold a variety of hyperconverged infrastructure solutions including Nutanix, HPE Simplivity, Cisco Hyperflex and others. Typically these are bought by customers who are looking for flexible in-house storage for their own private clouds running on a hypervisor like VMware. (I am ignoring the cloud extensions of these products for purposes of this review)
  • Hyperflex has a good handle on data redundancy.
  • Snapshots work well in VMware and provide added value beyond the traditional VMware snapshot.
  • Installation is straightforward.
Hyperflex is best for customers who already have Cisco UCS because of its integration with UCS fabric interconnects. You can add UCS blades to your Hyperflex cluster to increase compute capacity without increasing storage--which is great depending on your needs--but it's still limited to UCS. Installations without fabric interconnects have been limited in scope and most importantly expandability.

I like that it doesn't require data locality. While I've used Nutanix extensively and SimpliVity to a less extent, I'm not as sold on their use of it. On the one hand your reads are faster if they're all from the node currently running a VM, but it also means your data has to move around if you vmotion your VMs.

I do feel that Cisco has been playing catchup for a few years now with Nutanix, but Hyperflex has become a decent product that I would recommend to my customers where it's a good fit. However, I recommend being careful to make sure that it has all the features you need.

If you want to sleep well, just install Cisco HyperFlex

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 11, 2021
AC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
5 years of experience
Cisco HF solution is used in both scopes - IT and OT. For IT serve common applications - MS SQL, Oracle, WEB Applications, service systems. For OT we have moved to a virtual SCADA environment - all OT services (DB, applications) has been moved on HF platform. Before Cisco HF it was a big outage time ranges due slow DB or physical serves down. After migration - 0. We have 100% OT availability. Same for IT infrastructure - new service implementation take 20 minutes VS 4 hours before.
  • Fast and responsive operation.
  • Great support.
  • One management and monitoring point.
  • Legendary reliability.
  1. IT operations (databases, application servers).
  2. OT operations (V-SCADA, databases).
  3. University laboratory - to learn technologies, Big Data analyze, parallels calculation operations.
  4. Telecommunication providers.
  5. Companies with low space for powerful servers. It is best way to improve own infrastructure when only 3 servers may replaces 10 servers racks.

HyperFlex is HyperCool

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 14, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
4 years of experience
Cisco HyperFlex is being used to support mission-critical applications within my organization. The platform services many tools and applications that helps maintain 24x7 monitoring and control of our campus data centers.
  • High performance platform.
  • Easy to deploy and maintain.
  • Reliable.
HyperFlex is great option if you are looking for a high performance and reliable hyper-converged platform. We do not have to spend a great deal of time with administration of the platform, and can easily monitor the system health via Cisco Intersight.
We are still investigating the evolving stretch cluster capabilities, and have not fully vetted those capabilities to replace our existing converged virtual infrastructure yet.

Hyperflex, yes!

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 05, 2021
ND
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
4 years of experience
The Cisco HyperFlex is used in our data center to manage our student virtual desktops. Paired with VMware Horizon, Cisco HyperFlex's robustness helps us easily manage storage space and network functionality. The use of Cisco HyperFlex has isolated our VDI environment and made it much easier to manage because all the required resources are in one setup.
  • Expandability
  • Stability
  • Extremly low profile
  • Redundancy
If you require an all-in-one setup, Cisco HyperFlex is the perfect solution. The 24 drive bays and 18 memory slots per box make these boxes well suited for a virtual environment with very low required cabinet space. Any company could benefit from the use of Cisco HyperFlex. I would not recommend it for a small business or anyone with limited Cisco knowledge; the UI can be quite overwhelming with all of the features.

Cisco HyperFlex, the genuine hyperconverged solution.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 31, 2020
WH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
1 year of experience
We used HyperFlex to replace our separate server and storage environments. We are moving from Cisco UCS and Fiber Channel storage to a truly hyper-converged solution that will host thousands of virtualized machines for our customers. This is a Virtualised Server Infrastructure based upon VMWare ESXi for apx 6000 end users.
  • Ease of installation
  • Quality of product
  • Ease of operation
Great for both private and hybrid cloud environments. Can support both general virtualized workloads and specific workloads (including SAP HANA). Strong hyperconverged offering which solves a lot of issues you have with other solutions by providing a complete solution including network and bespoke hypervisor images.

Short Overview of Cisco HyperFlex

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 29, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
1 year of experience
We use the Cisco HyperFlex structure for connecting our locations and set a redundant cluster for that. We have 4 locations across the country, with the need for a highly available server structure.
  • Reliability of services
  • Flexible and scalable cluster
We have quite a big data store covered up with our HyperFlex solution, it's well suited for bigger structures with importance in redundant systems. For smaller needs, there is an option to use the HX Edge, without the FIs. If you use VMware it’s well integrated, the same goes for an ACI structure. But I’m not quite sure if all features work that well with Hyper-V.

HyperFlex on the go

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 28, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco HyperFlex (discontinued)
1 year of experience
We are looking for an easy way to deploy servers that we can bring to our branch offices.
  • Ease of deployment.
  • Integration into UCS tools.
It really depends on the use case you plan to have. For us, it is good for small deployment solutions. For DC, we still prefer a UCS plain solution.
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