We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Dell XC Appliance [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Scalability is easy and simple."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"Support is very responsive."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place"
"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."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"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."
"The price could be better. I think it's more expensive than VxRail. In the next release, I would like to see a better level of protection and availability with six clients."
"One of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"I would like a lighter product; something which can be carried by a mere human. The typical size still looks like a stack of data center-sized servers, which is typically fine, but not so good if you want to carry it around."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with .
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