We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"The integration between the storage and the server applications is the most valuable feature of this solution. It cuts down on the necessity to buy a secondary storage system.. It saves money in the long-run."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"Offsite backup, replication, and duplication of data are important for our plant environment since we are hard on our equipment."
"In terms of HPE SimpliVity's most valuable features, its backup integration is a good thing. Its performance is very good as is the whole integration."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"The solution is very stable."
"It has a proven track record of stability."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"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."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."
"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."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
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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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