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."You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"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."
"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."
"You have to get the same servers with the same storage; they need to be identical. However, in vSAN or in VMware we don't have to do that. We can just add storage and manage it in the same server."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"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."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"I would like a lighter product; something which can be carried by a mere human. The typical size still looks like a stack of data center-sized servers, which is typically fine, but not so good if you want to carry it around."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could 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 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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