We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE Hyper Converged based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"It is extremely stable."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"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 initial setup is easy."
"It is a complete package. For any kind of on-premises hyper-converged solution, we usually have to separate networks, but Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a complete solution. It has its own network and storage. The storage part is the most valuable feature."
"The storage system is its most valuable feature. It has eliminated our entire need for having to worry about storage. We were storing a lot of syslog data and using a lot of templates in our data center. With the storage system, we are now saving an enormous amount of space."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"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."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"Its price could be better."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th 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, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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