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."The storage system is its most valuable feature. It has eliminated our entire need for having to worry about storage. We were storing a lot of syslog data and using a lot of templates in our data center. With the storage system, we are now saving an enormous amount of space."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"This is not the only product we use, so we have other solutions to compare it with. We can compare different products and different vendors and tell our customers which products have which advantages and disadvantages so that they can leverage these products in their own environment. This product helps us to understand the customer's needs and what issues they can run into."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"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."
"We are working with a lot of different technologies and trying to manage them with one tool. The API could be improved for better integration with other systems."
"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"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 pricing is pretty expensive."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
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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 182 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, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony.
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