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"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"The software defines networking, storage, and processing."
"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."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"A very flexible solution."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Their technical support is very bad. We had an issue where instead of an engineer we got a PDF "doctor" that didn't know anything about our problem which was very frustrating."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"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."
"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."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users."
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"It is a costly solution."
"User interface could be improved."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"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."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is ranked 8th 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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