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."Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"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."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"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."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"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 management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"It is scalable and easy to use."
"The feature that we are most interested in is the scalability. When needed, we are able to add more nodes and scale it up further."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"It has reduced downtime. Before, on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. But currently I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"The solution is scalable."
"Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also then have to work with multiple vendors."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"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."
"If we could have just a single pane of glass, where everything can be managed through that one app, rather than have multiple apps, it would be great."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"Exporting data from the dashboard is not very user-friendly. It's just designed in a way that it's going to cover let's say 90%, 80%, of the end-users needs. If you need more sophisticated reporting it's not easy to have."
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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 20 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0. 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 "Is very resilient and protects our data, but the solution is complex". 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 Alletra dHCI and HPE SimpliVity.
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