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."We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"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."
"The speed, storage, and management are the most valuable features."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"Great integration with backup software."
"Our customers have seen ROI in terms of the time they save troubleshooting."
"It is a complete package. For any kind of on-premises hyper-converged solution, we usually have to separate networks, but Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a complete solution. It has its own network and storage. The storage part is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is scalable."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"The most valuable feature is the overall integration and just seeing the three different layers which make up the machine software. Altogether, it's something that I would say is much better than any other solution that I have experienced before."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"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."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"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."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"I would like to see more analytics. It could use better infographs in the HyperFlex Connect on how traffic is running in the network. If you were reaching any capacity issues on the Fabric Interconnects, it should be able to cool all of the servers and Fabric Interconnects, then possibly integrate it with, e.g., Nexus Series switches. This should all be available in a single pane of glass."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"Their technical support is very bad. We had an issue where instead of an engineer we got a PDF "doctor" that didn't know anything about our problem which was very frustrating."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"The installation is complex."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."
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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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