We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and FlexPod XCS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Our customers have seen ROI in terms of the time they save troubleshooting."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the stability."
"Technical support has been good when we have contacted them in the past. They have been helpful."
"It runs very well lights out. Set it and forget it."
"The ability to converge a lot of different data and platforms into a single common platform, then scale horizontally and vertically."
"It takes all of the homework out of building the solution. The prearchitected design simplifies your deployment, gets you a quicker time to market, and a single point of support."
"Performance-wise, it is actually doing quite well. The end users are very happy with it."
"The solution has granular scalability."
"The main advantage is consolidating everything into a single rack, which helps optimize power consumption, especially in CRM."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"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."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."
"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."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"If you have expertise setting up such environments, then you are good, but for customers or novices, it becomes a nightmare and stuff may actually be left out."
"It would be very helpful if the upgrades for Cisco, VMware, and NetApp could be bundled together and performed at the same time."
"I would like to see more orchestration tools in FlexPod because we virtually end up with integrating the v-orchestration tool within FlexPod. I would like to see something like that included within FlexPod."
"It would be helpful if they sold a pre-boxed option so that you can buy a rack and everything's already there, everything's connected."
"Automatic tiering would be good to have."
"They could improve their technical support team. They need to have a specific phone number for you to call in for the FlexPod solution. Some of the partner support knows if it is for FlexPod, they will get you to the right department."
"Some of the define features could use improvement."
"I would like to see more CVDs and more published designs around a multi-hypervisor approach within a single pod."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6. 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 FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System.
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