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."StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"They offer top-tier support."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"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."
"The storage system is its most valuable feature. It has eliminated our entire need for having to worry about storage. We were storing a lot of syslog data and using a lot of templates in our data center. With the storage system, we are now saving an enormous amount of space."
"The solution is very stable."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"A very flexible solution."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"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."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"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."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."
"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"
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"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."
"It is a costly solution."
"User interface could be improved."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
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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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