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."
"It consumes a smaller footprint when I compare it with other competitors."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"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."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web. For example, for the integration to VMware, I had a case recently and I searched for more information but didn't find any."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"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."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
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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 183 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, StorMagic SvSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony.
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