We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"Great integration with backup software."
"Scalability is easy and simple."
"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."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"The most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"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 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 utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"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."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 183 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony.
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