We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."
"The most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"The solution is scalable."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"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."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"I would like a lighter product; something which can be carried by a mere human. The typical size still looks like a stack of data center-sized servers, which is typically fine, but not so good if you want to carry it around."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"The biggest feature, which should be included, is some method to handle archival backup or cloud-based backup. Where SimpliVIty typically falls down with their data structure is: The longer a backup is kept, the more space it ends up inevitably using. When you get into things that you have to keep for five or seven years for legal requirements or regulatory compliance, then you start taking up a lot of space with these old dead backups that you are probably never going to use again. Being able to offload those to a separate platform or cloud storage location would be ideal."
"In terms of what I would define as a perfect solution, I am looking for one that is easy to manage, has a real user-friendly interface, and something that is not too complex."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"Product doesn't scale."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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