Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series Scalability

HN
Infrastructure Integration Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees

This is a scalable product. 

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DA
Manager, Open Systems Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability of this solution has been excellent. We've been able to add additional HyperFlex units on the fly, and it's been pretty seamless.

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KD
Assistant VP, Information Technology at SBICAP Securities Ltd.

I would rate scalability a six out of ten. It has some issues with scalability.

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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series
March 2024
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Nuno Mendes - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager - Resp.Department at Parvalorem

Cisco HyperFlex HX may be expensive, but this is offset by the fact that it is a highly scalable solution, even though we're only a small team at the moment. Our admin team is only four people, but there are about 200 employees who make use of its resources throughout our company. I would give it a ten out of ten for scalability in this regard.

On the other hand, the scalability is somewhat reduced when you consider that our physical HyperFlex infrastructure will be end-of-life in 2024. Because of this, we are considering changing to a cloud solution, or perhaps another kind of physical solution, once our term with HyperFlex is complete.

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Kalpesh Savaliya - PeerSpot reviewer
Asst. Manager IT at APM Terminals, Inc.

This solution is scalable, although only the IT staff uses it. Normal users don't rely on this product. We are deploying it for all of the terminals but it is not clear whether we will expand our usage because we are using different products, as well.

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Devendra-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of HyperFlex HX-Series is good. Once you implement the solution, the integration is smooth.

We have approximately 1,000 users using this solution in my organization.

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HT
Manager, Core Engineering at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability could be better. It doesn't have a big impact.

We have our customers using the solution. We have about one million customers. 

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ST
Presales Solutions Architect at Intracom Telecom

The tool is scalable. Five or six customers use the on-premise solution.

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EM
Software Developer at FNB South Africa

The solution is very scalable. 

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Md Shahnewaj Hossain - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Deputy Director of IT at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is robustly scalable

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Hussein Taha - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Enterprise System Administrator at Misr Technology Services

It's a scalable solution. 

You can upgrade or add many hard disks so the business can keep continuity and scalability. It's also based on your business scope. We have ten branches. The ten branches are variants between the HX nodes. Some of them have ten hard disks, and some of them do not. Some of them have more. In any case, we find it very simple to scale where needed. 

We have six system administrators working directly with the solution.

I'm not sure if there is a plan to increase usage just yet.  

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JM
Manager at Chevron

Cisco HyperFlex HX is very scalable for a large data center solution.

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AA
Sales Manager at Dataworld Computer Center

It's actually one of the HCIs that I consider to have a greater potential for expansion. The scalability of Cisco is better than the others.

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CW
Sr IT Manager at Aryzta AG

It definitely looks like it keeps scaling. We're not doing huge deployments of it, but it looks like it's easy to keep adding on to what we have.

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EF
Manger Assistant in Storage at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability is very good. Thus far, I haven't had to scale it out. In talking with my engineer, I'm very comfortable that when the time comes, we will be able to.

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MH
Enterprise System Architect at SAAB Group

The scalability is fantastic; I'm close to saying matchless. I've forgotten how many physical nodes were involved, but it was a substantial installation. Really large. It had the capacity to host 16,000 concurrent users. That's pretty sizable.

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EA
Pre-Sales Engineer at Raya Integration

Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a scalable solution. We have five or six people working on this solution.

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KG
Systems Admin at a university with 10,001+ employees

For the scalability of the solution, I would give it an 8 out of10.

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DR
Sr Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not needed to scale yet, but I would say — based on what we know that product can do and our experience with it — that the solution is very scalable.

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BhaveshParmar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Head at Intercraft

The scalability of the Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series has been very good for what we are using it for in the current project.

We have approximately 400 users using this solution.

We do not plan to increase usage at least for the next six months.

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PC
Senior Consultant at Daimler AG

The scalability is good. I can scale it on the fly. I don't really have to invest a lot of time in scaling up these machines.

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SR
Deputy Manager at PacECloud

The solution is scalable. We are using so many clusters, including standard clusters, self-encryption device clusters, and accessories. It is definitely a scalable solution. As a service provider, we have over 80 people using the solution.

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AE
Senior System Engineer at Intelcom

The solution is extendable and flexible for administrative purposes. I will normally deploy and cluster the containment in six nodes, with another in four, in three and in five. 

Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure. 

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DR
Field Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I am very impressed with the scalability of this solution. It's easy to scale. 

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ZA
Director of Network Operations at a government

I think the scalability of the solution is excellent. Because you can upgrade individual pieces without upgrading a whole node. The problem for other solutions is that if you want a hard drive or you want additional storage or you want memory, you have to make a bigger investment in hardware and time. So, scalability's excellent.

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KD
General Manager of IT at Magma Fincorp Ltd.

Scaling, currently, is four nodes. Our plan is to add a couple of nodes next year.

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AK
Solution Architect at COPYCAT LIMITED

We primarily deal with small and medium-sized companies.

While the solution can scale up, it can't scale out, and this is a problem for us.

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BM
Network Architect at City of Mesa

It seems like the Cisco HyperFlex is very scalable. Our deployment is small. We haven't tested out that aspect of it.

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AR
Technical Director at Ping Network Solutions

Scalability was one of the big selling points. Because we are using HyperFlex, we can add additional compute or storage resources without breaking the model that we have built.

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MS
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable and it is easy to expand in storage and other areas, such as if you want to increase the nodes it is very simple. We currently have approximately 3000 users using the solution.

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BS
Principle Architect at NTT Data India Enterprise Application Services Pri

Cisco HyperFlex HX has got great scalability. Right now, they offer a potential scale that is well beyond my network requirements.

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RK
IT Infrastructure Manager at Azersun Holding Group

It is very easy to scale with this solution.

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AR
Senior Technical Consultant at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

It is scalable.

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SA
CIO at Latif Group

With a hyperconverged system it's easy to increase whatever you need. We needed to increase our data storage several times and we increased it very easily. The scalability was very nice and we didn't need any downtime to increase the system.

We had 40 TB capacity and 20 TB availability with about 70 TB of backup. There were about 200 users. Their roles included finance, HR; almost all the departments in the organization.

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AT
Common Tech at PCGLA

Our scalability works well. It's fine.

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LG
Engineering Manager at OCP TECH

We have 1000 users of the solution in our organization. We plan to increase the usage as well.

I rate its scalability as an eight.

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AJ
Data Center Engineer at Emerging Communications Limited

HyperFlex is very scalable because you can scale up by increasing the number of nodes and scale out by increasing the number of discs in the storage.

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MZ
Datacenter TeamLeader at Crystal Neworks Egypt

Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is scalable.

I think you need one or two people maximum to operate it. They must have different technology experience from different perspectives because they deal with the virtual storage and the servers, but its concept is coming from computing and virtualization. Someone should have the knowledge of all the verticals.

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MZ
IT Director at Guangdong Technion Institute of Technology

We have nine people using it in my department, IT. We are the key users. They rely on us for running the system. So far, it is the only system I have to run. And in recent years, it is running more stably.

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Ashok Braganza - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at Ministry of Justice

We have about 10,000 users. Maintenance is okay, but the hardware failure is too much, and sometimes memory is lost.

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AA
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We are considering expansion at the moment. The solution is easily scalable if it is planned correctly from the beginning. 

Our previous generation is going to end support in two years. We're planning to migrate our whole virtualization infrastructure from the old generation solution to the Cisco solution. Basically, within one or two years, we'll be moving all our instrumentation and all our workloads will be moving to this solution.

A minimum of three servers is needed. If these servers have good specifications from the beginning, it's as easy as adding another node. You can expand the solution with more and more nodes. That said, if the node isn't configured properly in the amount of CPU, RAM, and storage, then when you try to expand, you must either expand with more than one node to add more and more scalability, or you must upgrade the existing nodes.

HyperFlex is hosting our financial systems. In terms of users, for management, it's just the ITT and we're managing the solution. However, if you consider people who are using the servers as infrastructure, then you can say more than 50 people technically are on the solution. Basically, the whole company uses the PBX system as an exchange for phone calls, for example.

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Myint Aung - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Manager at BIM Group of Companies

We have various customers using the solution. I'm not sure how many end users they have that use the solution. 

We have not had issues with scaling. 

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OJ
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The scalability is good, though it used to be lacking a bit. Now, the HyperFlex system probably has the scalability to be able to cover every single customer in Norway and their needs. With how much it can scale, Norway doesn't have that customers with this many servers, at least in the same use cases or workloads using HyperFlex.

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MM
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr

This product is quite scalable.

Our usage of this product may increase but it is up to the customer. For example, when a customer is loyal to Cisco, they will implement HyperFlex. On the other hand, if it's a customer with a hyper-converged infrastructure then they will definitely implement VxRail.

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JJ
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We add more HyperFlex servers as we need, so it is pretty scalable.

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NM
CIO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is one of the most important things with the Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. In terms of scalability, this product provides maximum scalability.

We can easily increase horizontally. We can easily increase the number of nodes. It depends on the subscription.

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it_user870954 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre Sales Manager at Vortex TI

In terms of scalability, it is the best among all the competitors in the data center-hyperconverged world. We can add nodes to improve the compute of a cluster. We can add nodes to increase storage. We can grow a cluster up to 32 nodes.

The biggest that I have been involved in implementing was five nodes.

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it_user1003365 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-sales Consultant Manager at Econocom

The solution can scale up and out.

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RR
Senior Network Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is just as they predicted. It combined the frontend servers with the backend storage. While it is a little cumbersome to learn, it is scalable to be able to add more shelves if I need more memory or additional servers very easily. It does scale nicely.

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FQ
Sr. System Engineer at IBL-Unisys

Best from other competitor. (i believe )

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SV
System Administrator at Provinzial NordWest

The scalability is good. We use the nodes that we bought, and they have really scaled out.

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PR
CIO at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

We are trying to determine the product's scalability now as we are doing a new proof of concept with new equipment/products.

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IK
Data Center Supervisor at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable. We recently added three more nodes, which went very smoothly.

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KD
Account Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It is a scalable solution.

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WK
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is good.

We currently have 1,000 to, maybe, 10,000 users.

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AK
Senior Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

One thing I like about this product is it is more scalable and fast, i.e. the disks and everything. We can extend our data center to some other places.

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MV
Enterprise Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Based on the bigger picture, scalability should be good. However, we haven't tested in on scale yet. On paper, it is perfectly fine.

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FH
Network Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

You can add a package to expand the storage space or machines if you need more machine power. If you don't look at the costs of the systems, the scalability is quite good.

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RP
Network Analyst at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is up around 75%.

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RR
Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We do plan to continue using the product and expanding it as needed. 

Cisco is better for enterprise-level organizations.

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Solution0dea - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability and performance are good. 

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SM
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Scalability was cool on the marketing site but the two node clusters crashed. I'm not willing to build large scale infrastructure with this product because it's not stable enough.

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YE
Network and Security Engineer at Italtel

It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan.

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FV
System Engineer with 51-200 employees

It is a good, scalable solution.

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MA
Solution Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no problems with the scalability of the solution.

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DO
Consultant at Italtel

The scalability is one of its main features.

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MM
IT System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

In terms of scalability, we can add servers, storage servers or computing servers, and we're much more flexible with block-based storage.

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FR
Product and Project Manager at Eta2u

The scalability is fantastic. It scales much more than we need.

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RV
Solution Consultant IBM Storage/Lenovo/Softlayer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Cisco is more scalable versus other solutions in the same sphere. For example, Cisco is predominantly used with bigger companies. Lenovo HX is used for smaller sized companies. 

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MP
IT systems specialist with 1-10 employees

The scalability of the Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is good.

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AZ
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability was kept in mind when they designed this product. We can scale from really small deployments to very large deployments. The scalability is not an issue with HyperFlex, it scales better than Nutanix and other vendors. 

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CI
Sr Solution Architect at NetDesign

It's a very scalable product because they have about 150 commercial services, so the scalability is very high, and the uptime is great. 

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JK
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Scalability is really great because you can adjust the HyperFlex node. If you need more storage, you can add some more drives when it's not full at the beginning. Also, you have the possibility to edge the compute resources with the plates. 

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SS
Team Lead - ITIS at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

For scalability, I would rate HyperFlex nine out of 10.

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CA
Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability is okay. Our customers don't complain about it.

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FO
System Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability has been very good for us since we were stuck on our old platform with old drives and hardware. Hyperflex has given us flexibility where we can scale up and down, allowing our servers to react. We now can do large scales for data storage, which helps a lot.

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CP
Solution Architect at Teleconsys

The scalability is good.

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ZB
Data Center Specialist at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability is perfect.

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DS
Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Scalability is easy and simple. 

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Buyer's Guide
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.