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 very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."
"The UCS, which is by far the best management tool there is on the market, regardless of vendor. It's the only tool I see that gives you the opportunity to size and scale all the assets and capacity you have in your data center, from a unified view."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"It consumes a smaller footprint when I compare it with other competitors."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"The solution is very stable."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"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."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users."
"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 initial setup can be complex."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"It is a costly solution."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"User interface could be improved."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
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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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