We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Dell PowerFlex based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"The UCS, which is by far the best management tool there is on the market, regardless of vendor. It's the only tool I see that gives you the opportunity to size and scale all the assets and capacity you have in your data center, from a unified view."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."
"The solution is scalable."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also then have to work with multiple vendors."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"The program is stable."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"The documentation could be better."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"Its price could be better."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"I would like for them to develop integration with other technologies, like SD Access. It's still lacking an enhancement management player."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"The installation is complex."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"The solution must be more flexible."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 19 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Dell PowerFlex 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 Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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