We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and FlexPod XCS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"It's quite easy to install."
"They offer top-tier support."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"The implementation process is okay."
"The most valuable feature was the backup - it was easy to back up. It was also very easy to administrate and manage the system; much easier and faster. Finally, it was easy to extend the disk capacities."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."
"We got the product and we have a small environment, but it was able to be scalable to when we started to grow."
"We enjoy the standardization and having things consistent across the whole data center sphere."
"UCS Profiles enable recovering a physical server in less than 15 minutes."
"The hardware has been rock solid so far. It has gone up easy. It runs well. We have not had issues with it."
"The product is very stable and it does what it needs to do."
"One of the easiest solutions to implement, maintain, and scale."
"Integrated support: It is all under one support contract."
"The most valuable feature is the one support. Anytime that a customer buys a solution for a server, storage, or network, once they have trouble in their environment, everyone wants to find out who was wrong. With FlexPod, everyone is wrong and there is unified support. The best way to solve the problem is have it be everyone's problem, not just one person's problem. For FlexPod, you can call NetApp or Cisco, and I think it's the best way to solve the problem that the customer has."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"Some of our customers do not want to adopt the Cisco ACI solution. They want to manage Cisco HyperFlex by integrating it with their own management solution."
"Its price could be better."
"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."
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"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."
"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."
"A progress bar would...be pretty cool."
"I think they are working on it, but I would like to be able to log into a portal and see the end-to-end solution and understand where it stands, from a supportability perspective."
"We would like to have more monitoring and reporting, because today some of the reporting, and if you purchase it separately is expensive. We use OnCommand Unified Manager today, which is great, but we are looking for more of that."
"Our environment does not always require this solution, so we are not reaping the optimal ROI."
"The networking configurations with UCS need improvement."
"It would be helpful to have more flexibility for adding other components."
"Maybe in the future, they could include the HCI solution into the mix."
"Upgrades are always scary because you just don't know. Nobody has six or seven different systems sitting around that you can test on before you go into production data."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while FlexPod XCS 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 FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System.
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