We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"On the VDI side, because the storage is local to the HyperFlex, it was very easy and convenient. The performance is exceptional."
"The speed, storage, and management are the most valuable features."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"They should have more blade options and more configuration flexibility. Also, the price is expensive. It should be cheaper but it is worth the price."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."
"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."
"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"Product doesn't scale."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"The technical support is weak. It is a layered product. It has a software solution on top of the SimpliVity solution, which is built on top of the hardware of the HPE DL380s. When we call for a problem that we know is related to the DL380, we get a SimpliVity guy trying to solve a SimpliVity problem. If it is not a SimpliVity problem, it's a hardware problem. So, it takes awhile for them to figure out which part of the organization should really be helping us."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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