We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers."
"It allows us to authorize our residents to come in using their own personal devices to access any of our clinical applications and ensure that the PHI is secure and protected."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"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 solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"The way it does backups is its most valuable feature. It replicates snapshots with very low bandwidth. We only have a 50 megabit link to that site, and it doesn't really use much of it at all. Therefore, it is a really good fit for getting our backups done."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"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 helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
"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"
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"The fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should 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 SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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