We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE Hyper Converged based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"The implementation process is okay."
"Great integration with backup software."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."
"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
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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 Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged 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 HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and FlexPod XCS, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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