We performed a comparison between Cisco Hyperflex HX Series and VMware vSAN based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware vSAN wins out in this comparison. The main difference between the two solutions is that Cisco Hyperflex HX Series users find deployment to be difficult, and also say the solution uses a lot of memory and hardware resources. In addition, they do not mention an ROI.
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"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."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"The product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."
"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"IOPS is comparatively best to run VDI solution."
"This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is stable."
"The features of vSAN allow us to reduce our operational complexity to a large degree."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is you do not have to use additional hardware for storage. The operation of VMware vSAN does not take a lot of effort. If you have VMware technology on your site, then it's easy for the operational support of the system."
"It completely removes the need for a storage network and for a storage administrator and all of that infrastructure and the costs that are involved with them."
"The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"I would like to see more analytics. It could use better infographs in the HyperFlex Connect on how traffic is running in the network. If you were reaching any capacity issues on the Fabric Interconnects, it should be able to cool all of the servers and Fabric Interconnects, then possibly integrate it with, e.g., Nexus Series switches. This should all be available in a single pane of glass."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"We do see weird things crop up every now and again. It will say that a drive gets kicked off even though it's fine, and we have to re-add it."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
"There is always a challenge with their firmware."
"They can improve the manageability of the solution to make it more simple. It is not that complicated, but it will be good if they can make it more simple."
"The quality of the customer service and support depends on the vSAN case. For example, if I open ten cases, maybe two or three get resolved quickly. But the other cases have a slow response."
"I would like for the next release to be a bit cheaper."
"It would be ideal if clients didn't need to monitor the solution on a daily basis."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs. VMware vSAN report.
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