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."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."
"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."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"It consumes a smaller footprint when I compare it with other competitors."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"The solution is stable."
"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 ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
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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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