We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and FlexPod XCS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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."
"It is scalable and easy to use."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers."
"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 most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"We have absolutely been able to save space."
"The ability to converge a lot of different data and platforms into a single common platform, then scale horizontally and vertically."
"The most valuable features of this solution are efficiency and simplicity."
"If the network or site is down, you just need to go to a single vendor. You don't have to open up multiple cases with each vendor to get things done. That is one of the financial benefits of this solution."
"The ease at which it scales and its redundancy factors. It's extremely redundant and easy-to-scale."
"It's flexible. You can scale up or out. Our environment has never needed it, but the option has always been there."
"It definitely streamlined operations. TCO-wise, it reduced cabling in the architecture. So, there has definitely been some savings. There have been a lot of reductions in the IT admin's time: reduced time to troubleshoot, reduced time to inventory the infrastructure, and reduced time to set up a host with templates and storage. The solution is saving easily 10 hours a week in time."
"It is pretty flexible. We are able to deploy faster."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"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."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"The problem is that we always have to keep an eye out for new releases to make sure that the version we're running is up-to-date."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"You must build each block separately, that's a disadvantage sometimes."
"In the SolidFire interface, if you use the GUI, you have to create one run at a time, or one device at a time, which is something that needs to be fixed."
"Newer platform reference architectures take a long time to harden and be publicly available."
"We would like one-click upgrades."
"If they could reduce some of the complexity at the system manager level for ONTAP. I find it gives a lot of flexibility. You can do as much or as little as you want. But to be able to do as little as you want, you do have to do a lot. So, if they could bring that down to a more manageable effort level, that would be nice and simplify it a bit."
"Sometimes, when the newer versions of any of the partners’ firmware or software come out, there's still sometimes a lag of the partners to support all of those new components."
"FlexPod will do very well on the average app, but there's room for improvement in performance and the data center side."
"I would like them to integrate the NVIDIA GRID into the system, so we could easily deploy certain solutions with the FlexPod."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while FlexPod XCS 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 FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System.
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