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."The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use 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 provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"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."
"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."
"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."
"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
"The storage system is its most valuable feature. It has eliminated our entire need for having to worry about storage. We were storing a lot of syslog data and using a lot of templates in our data center. With the storage system, we are now saving an enormous amount of space."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"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."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."
"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."
"If we could have just a single pane of glass, where everything can be managed through that one app, rather than have multiple apps, it would be great."
"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."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
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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 FlexPod XCS, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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