What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series?

It's always a pain to work with Cisco on licensing. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. The product could be cheaper.

Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a bit pricier compared to other brands in the market. Yearly payments are to be made toward the licensing cost of the solution. The approximate licensing cost of the product depends on the model a person chooses. There is a need to make additional payments towards the maintenance and support of the solution.

The solution is highly priced compared to other vendors.

I have a yearly subscription.

When we negotiated with Cisco for the HyperFlex solution, they gave us a good price because they wanted to break into the market in Portugal for the first time. However, in general, I think it's a very expensive solution. It's a huge amount of money to acquire this kind of infrastructure. I would give the pricing a rating of eight out of ten.

The solution is more expensive since switches are one of the things that add cost to the solution. The service is a little bit more costly as well. They cost more than other vendors.

Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is expensive. It's a standard license, and we pay for it yearly. I think we pay about 700.

We have a yearly license.

I do not handle any aspects of licensing. I don't have a solid figure. For the production part, I pass it to our operation team to continue the license purchase. However, for the lab, I maintain it. For the lab, I spent around $70,000 to $100,000 CAD per year for licensing and maintaining it.

There is a 30 percent additional premium that all the companies are charging for Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series because of the lack of chips and bottlenecks in the market. The cost of the solution is high right now. We have a process to pick the five-year standard license which we do not have any additional costs.

The solution is quite expensive when compared to other options, although their technology is better. You do need to pay a yearly licensing fee. How much depends upon how many are using it. I'm not sure how much in dollars, however, in pesos, it's around, if I'm 3 million to 5 million. Everything is included under on licensing fee. there are no extra costs.

HyperFlex is relatively expensive, but you get good value for money.

There is no additional licensing cost other than the cost for each part.

There is a license required to use this solution.

HyperFlex is a little pricey.

The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect.

The solution comes at a higher cost than if you had separate integrations grouped together. There are licenses included with the hardware, and then there are annual subscriptions that you need to pay. You need to pay an annual subscription service to Cisco for operating the solution. There are other solutions that are purely hardware and whatever licenses you pay, you pay one time along with the purchase, or if you need to expand. This solution has an annual subscription payment.

This is an expensive solution, although Cisco will offer it free of charge when there is a large networking opportunity that arises. The licensing is perpetual and the only thing that you may need to pay for on a monthly basis is if you're going to use their cloud-based management features. This requires a subscription.

We are on an annual subscription and the price is fair.

The pricing is high for the solution. The costs need to be adjusted. The licensing is okay, however, the harder infrastructure needs to be adjusted.

Its price is high. Cisco needs to work on the pricing model for this product. Nutanix or VMware are cheaper products, and they provide almost the same functionality. Its price is a big road blocker when we are working with an end customer, and Nutanix and VMware are in competition. If they can reduce its price, it is actually a better choice for customers.

The solution can be pretty expensive. It's not the cheapest option on the market.

In terms of their license, they don't actually call it a license, it's called technical support. We have to renew that after certain periods. And it's not cheap.

Its price is rather fair when compared with other solutions like VxRail, vSAN, and HPE SimpliVity. We got a fair amount of discount from Cisco for Cisco HyperFlex. It is cost-effective. We have renewed storage till next year, and we have already paid the vendor. When we talk about HyperFlex or any HCI solution, storage is the part where we can reduce a lot of costs. At the current moment, we are already using NetApp storage, which did not allow us to go for a full Cisco HyperFlex setup. We are planning to go to a larger scale next year. Then we will be able to see how cost-effective it really is for us.

My advice about the product is simply that it's not cheap. If you have budget limitations it is best to look elsewhere.

We have a 3-year contract with Cisco. The license is for three years also.

Our licensing costs are large, but it is combined between all of the Cisco products that we have.

Our licensing is hybrid. We have all of our applications for billing and outage management through this.

It's roughly $30,000 per HyperFkex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year.

We currently have a perpetual license, which is kind of unlimited, so we don't have the normal licensing cost, yet.

One of the challenges we have with HyperFlex is that they have a subscription fee for the operating system that runs on it, and if I remember correctly, it costs approximately $15,000 USD per month.

in my opinion, i recommend Cisco hyperflex.

They are not the cheapest on the market. But there's an old saying I like to quote: "If you know that you are getting what you pay for, it's fine if it's expensive."

We negotiated with Cisco and we got some price benefit from that.

Here in Brazil, our point of view about the cost to implement or buy this kind of solution is that it is very expensive. It's very hard for almost all companies to buy even the small version of this solution. For me, this is the most negative point of the Cisco solution: the price and the licensing costs.

Initially HyperFlex was a little costly, it was higher, but Cisco wanted to get into our company, so they gave us a fair discount. We have also gone for another setup from Cisco, which we should soon receive, the vGPU. On this second purchase they were not able to give the same discount.

It's much more expensive than rack servers. It was an issue, but when you compare it to the number of people who were administrative assistants before, it's on the positive ROI side. It's much cheaper.

The product is expensive. Other solutions are cheaper.

Comparable solutions with switches, storage, and services are cheaper than HyperFlex. It should be cheaper.

The price is a bit too high.

I would like a clearer licensing model. It should explain a bit more what you receive if you buy the more expensive license rather than the standard one. This would probably help in a lot of cases.

The pricing is expensive.

The price is a bit high. It could be better, but the product is worth the cost.

I would like the pricing to be cheaper.

The pricing is a bit expensive.

Pricing is better if you buy more Cisco products.

Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy.