We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Dell PowerFlex based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"They offer top-tier support."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"Most of our users are Cisco customers, so it fits in within the suites we use. Primarily for me, as a solution architect, it's the technology and architecture that is the most valuable. I know from my technical colleagues that it's easy to use and for the customer, the up-time is the most valuable asset. It's running, has low failure, and so on which is why we use it."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"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."
"Our customers have seen ROI in terms of the time they save troubleshooting."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"The program is stable."
"It has reduced downtime. Before, on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. But currently I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"The solution is quite stable."
"This is a great product."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"Stability is really poor, especially the storage stability. We lost data. There were disruptions of clusters and that's one big pain point of the solution. It's not stable enough, the documentation is not good, there's not much documentation available. For every call we need a tech engineer."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"The problem is that we always have to keep an eye out for new releases to make sure that the version we're running is up-to-date."
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."
"We're also running Hyper-V virtual machines. But we recently discovered that migration of the Hyper-V virtual machines is a bit challenging. Maybe if Dell EMC can come out with a tool that will make it very easy for us to migrate the Microsoft Hyper-V machine, that may be an improvement."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 19 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Dell PowerFlex 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 Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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