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."A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"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."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The UCS, which is by far the best management tool there is on the market, regardless of vendor. It's the only tool I see that gives you the opportunity to size and scale all the assets and capacity you have in your data center, from a unified view."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"The access, high availability, and interface are the most valuable and important for us. There is one interface for the whole product, which is very important because you have a single pane to view all the infrastructure of a customer. You can improve your data recovery plan or DRP, or you can make a special emergency plan if a disk has any problem."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"Offsite backup, replication, and duplication of data are important for our plant environment since we are hard on our equipment."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"The solution is very stable."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"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 configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web. For example, for the integration to VMware, I had a case recently and I searched for more information but didn't find any."
"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
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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 Scale Computing HC3.
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