We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"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."
"The product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."
"A very flexible solution."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"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)."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"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."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running."
"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"User interface could be improved."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"It is a costly solution."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
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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 StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. 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 StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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