We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."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."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"The product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"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 provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."
"Its price could be better."
"You have to get the same servers with the same storage; they need to be identical. However, in vSAN or in VMware we don't have to do that. We can just add storage and manage it in the same server."
"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."
"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is ranked 8th 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. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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