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"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"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.""
"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."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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 was the backup - it was easy to back up. It was also very easy to administrate and manage the system; much easier and faster. Finally, it was easy to extend the disk capacities."
"This is not the only product we use, so we have other solutions to compare it with. We can compare different products and different vendors and tell our customers which products have which advantages and disadvantages so that they can leverage these products in their own environment. This product helps us to understand the customer's needs and what issues they can run into."
"The solution is stable."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"The solution has many good features."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"If we could have just a single pane of glass, where everything can be managed through that one app, rather than have multiple apps, it would be great."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"The solution is not very stable."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
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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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