We performed a comparison between Cisco Hyperflex HX series and VxRail based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In our comparison, VxRail is the preferred solution. VxRail is easy to use and performs well without causing undue stress to operating systems. The competitive price and overall cost-effectiveness make it an easy choice for many organizations.
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"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."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."
"Our customers have seen ROI in terms of the time they save troubleshooting."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"Scalability is easy and simple."
"It makes for easier deployments through automation and improved accessibility."
"The scalability of VxRail is very good."
"Updating the product has been very easy."
"We were able to speed up our gaming software, which was a big plus."
"One-click upgrade is valuable because upgrading an environment that is considered a traditional one is something that we never do or are never going to complete. It is very time-consuming for my team. With the one-click upgrade, it is much quicker. There are preparation stages, but it takes less time, so we are also saving time in the daily administration."
"VxRail is a simple, efficient solution. It's easy to upgrade and scale the solution. If we increase our user base, we can easily scale it out. We have several thousand using it now."
"It helps simplify the management of VMware."
"Depending on your architecture type, it's simple to manage and implement VxRail compared to other solutions. That's why most of our customers use it."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."
"Some of our customers do not want to adopt the Cisco ACI solution. They want to manage Cisco HyperFlex by integrating it with their own management solution."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."
"The additional feature I would like to see included in the next release of this solution is more security. We want to add more data servers to all the hosts all over the world. We have 140 hosts that connect to one data center in Manila."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"I would like for them to develop integration with other technologies, like SD Access. It's still lacking an enhancement management player."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"The solution could improve by having more storage performance because in some other solutions you can have a file system that can be mounted at several places at one time."
"The licensing needs to be improved upon."
"VxRail could be easier to set up. It's tricky to configure the network properly and match the requirements."
"The solution is okay to scale vertically but a bit difficult to expend horizontally. For example, increasing RAM."
"It can be a bit complex for engineers who are new to it. There's a learning curve involved. They have to learn to operate it."
"In the version that I was working with, the integrations are in need of improvement."
"The search feature isn't good."
"The initial setup is very complex."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VxRail 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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