We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It's quite easy to install."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"The most valuable feature was the backup - it was easy to back up. It was also very easy to administrate and manage the system; much easier and faster. Finally, it was easy to extend the disk capacities."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"Most of our users are Cisco customers, so it fits in within the suites we use. Primarily for me, as a solution architect, it's the technology and architecture that is the most valuable. I know from my technical colleagues that it's easy to use and for the customer, the up-time is the most valuable asset. It's running, has low failure, and so on which is why we use it."
"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 network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"A very flexible solution."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"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 see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"Unlike other options, you need to pay a subscription to Cisco yearly instead of paying for the hardware outright, which makes it more expensive in the long run."
"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"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."
"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."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"It is a costly solution."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"User interface could 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 StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. 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 StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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