We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) offers a significant breadth of features."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"Great integration with backup software."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"The most useful feature is the solution's automation in terms of how we are able to spin up a certain workload in real-time when we are doing R&D."
"The consolidation of the management in one control point is the most valuable. The whole infrastructure management is consolidated in just one console point. The documentation is also pretty good."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running."
"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"We are working with a lot of different technologies and trying to manage them with one tool. The API could be improved for better integration with other systems."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is very difficult to operate. You have to have a deep understanding of the technical details of the infrastructure to implement it. When you compare it with VMware, it is totally different because the graphical user interface is not that easy to understand. It is not intuitive. To use it, you have to read a lot of documentation and even understand what is going on behind the solution. It is not for someone who has a little bit of knowledge. Currently, it is too complex. I need something that is easy to implement. It should have a basic configuration as well as a complex configuration."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"The licensing policy needs to be improved. They have a licensing policy based on the number of CPU sockets. Nowadays what has happened is that the license they are trying to move is based on the number of CPU cores. With the advancement in technology there are now more cores in a single CPU. It's been very challenging in terms of managing the license around everything. Today we have a processor with 24 and 32 cores on the same physical CPU."
"The main issue is the initial investment. It is an expensive product, and it should be cheaper. It should also be easier to use and manage. The professional service for this solution is quite complex and expensive."
"The cloud deployment could 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 Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 22nd in HCI. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. 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 Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure writes "Comes in a small, compact model that does not have any separate management but it is not so stable". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure.
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