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."Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."
"I have found backup and replication to be useful. We have a 10 megabit line between the data center and our main site. The backup and replication are very good. Additionally, the solution runs on VMware which is a benefit."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The most valuable aspect of the HPE SimpliVity is the DL380 G10. We have mostly been using VMware and Hyper-V. On one side we have Hyper-V and the other side we have the VMware."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"They can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
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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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