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"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The speed, storage, and management are the most valuable features."
"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained."
"The software defines networking, storage, and processing."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"Scalability is easy and simple."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"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 to see different levels of support offered."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"The initial setup can be complex."
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."
"We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution."
"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
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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 Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged 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 Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and FlexPod XCS, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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