We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Dell PowerFlex based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"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."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The solution is scalable."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"I would like to see more analytics. It could use better infographs in the HyperFlex Connect on how traffic is running in the network. If you were reaching any capacity issues on the Fabric Interconnects, it should be able to cool all of the servers and Fabric Interconnects, then possibly integrate it with, e.g., Nexus Series switches. This should all be available in a single pane of glass."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"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."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. Dell PowerFlex report.
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