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."This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"On the VDI side, because the storage is local to the HyperFlex, it was very easy and convenient. The performance is exceptional."
"It is scalable and easy to use."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"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."
"They can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web. For example, for the integration to VMware, I had a case recently and I searched for more information but didn't find any."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"I would like a lighter product; something which can be carried by a mere human. The typical size still looks like a stack of data center-sized servers, which is typically fine, but not so good if you want to carry it around."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"We have had some failures out-of-the-box. We have had some failures with the OmniStack module. One thing that we didn't fully understand was how much of the internal memory was used up by the OmniStack piece, which basically makes up SimpliVity."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"I have not seen ROI."
"The biggest feature, which should be included, is some method to handle archival backup or cloud-based backup. Where SimpliVIty typically falls down with their data structure is: The longer a backup is kept, the more space it ends up inevitably using. When you get into things that you have to keep for five or seven years for legal requirements or regulatory compliance, then you start taking up a lot of space with these old dead backups that you are probably never going to use again. Being able to offload those to a separate platform or cloud storage location would be ideal."
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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 Scale Computing HC3.
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