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 iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The price was right."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"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."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"It is a scalable solution."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"One of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"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."
"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."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."
"The problem is that we always have to keep an eye out for new releases to make sure that the version we're running is up-to-date."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
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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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