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."The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"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 easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"It consumes a smaller footprint when I compare it with other competitors."
"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."
"Scalability is easy and simple."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"The initial setup is simple."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"It is a stable solution."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"Stability is really poor, especially the storage stability. We lost data. There were disruptions of clusters and that's one big pain point of the solution. It's not stable enough, the documentation is not good, there's not much documentation available. For every call we need a tech engineer."
"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."
"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."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
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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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