We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"Its price could be better."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"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 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."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"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."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"Its performance can be faster."
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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 SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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