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"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"The initial setup was straightforward. With our partners and the consultancy that we had, we knew what we wanted to do. Therefore, we didn't have any problems with the installation and parametrization."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"It's very easy to integrate with the ACI network."
"The solution is stable."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The most valuable feature is the overall integration and just seeing the three different layers which make up the machine software. Altogether, it's something that I would say is much better than any other solution that I have experienced before."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"It has reduced downtime. Before, on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. But currently I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"The documentation could be better."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"I would like for them to develop integration with other technologies, like SD Access. It's still lacking an enhancement management player."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"We are working with a lot of different technologies and trying to manage them with one tool. The API could be improved for better integration with other systems."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"The installation is complex."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"We're also running Hyper-V virtual machines. But we recently discovered that migration of the Hyper-V virtual machines is a bit challenging. Maybe if Dell EMC can come out with a tool that will make it very easy for us to migrate the Microsoft Hyper-V machine, that may be an improvement."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 19 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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