We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Most of our users are Cisco customers, so it fits in within the suites we use. Primarily for me, as a solution architect, it's the technology and architecture that is the most valuable. I know from my technical colleagues that it's easy to use and for the customer, the up-time is the most valuable asset. It's running, has low failure, and so on which is why we use it."
"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 feature that we are most interested in is the scalability. When needed, we are able to add more nodes and scale it up further."
"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"I would like a lighter product; something which can be carried by a mere human. The typical size still looks like a stack of data center-sized servers, which is typically fine, but not so good if you want to carry it around."
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked 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.
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