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."The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The price was right."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"The implementation process is okay."
"Our customers have seen ROI in terms of the time they save troubleshooting."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The initial setup was straightforward. With our partners and the consultancy that we had, we knew what we wanted to do. Therefore, we didn't have any problems with the installation and parametrization."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"The compression and deduplication features are most valuable because they allow us to have a small footprint for storage. It is a very stable product, and we are also able to get all that we need in terms of reporting."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"Has good performance and ease of use"
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"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."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"It crashes often. When one particular VM has random, large IOPS requests, it will bog down the node, and there isn't enough time for the replica to be brought up. So all the VMs on that one particular node will essentially become offline."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
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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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