We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE Hyper Converged based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."
"The solution is stable."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"The solution has many good features."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."
"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"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."
"The price could be better. I think it's more expensive than VxRail. In the next release, I would like to see a better level of protection and availability with six clients."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
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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 Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged 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 Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure.
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