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"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"The initial setup was straightforward. With our partners and the consultancy that we had, we knew what we wanted to do. Therefore, we didn't have any problems with the installation and parametrization."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"A company can scale it easily."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."
"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"It is a costly solution."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
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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 StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE StoreVirtual 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 StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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