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."You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."
"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."
"The initial setup is easy."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"It is extremely stable."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"They should have more blade options and more configuration flexibility. Also, the price is expensive. It should be cheaper but it is worth the price."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"Unlike other options, you need to pay a subscription to Cisco yearly instead of paying for the hardware outright, which makes it more expensive in the long run."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"They require more media visibility."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
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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 182 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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