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 most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"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 product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"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."
"I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place"
"Its price could be better."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
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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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