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"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"The integration between the storage and the server applications is the most valuable feature of this solution. It cuts down on the necessity to buy a secondary storage system.. It saves money in the long-run."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"Support is very responsive."
"Great integration with backup software."
"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."
"It has automated a lot of workloads. It has automated us from ticketing a large number to a very small number."
"The most valuable aspects are that it's an all-in-one solution and it's very self-contained."
"The solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment."
"The NetApp Deployment Engine that comes with it makes the actual deployment and usage very easy. That's our primary focus and it's hyper-converged. That's something that we want to use as well."
"The multi-vertical aspect is what is most valuable for us. The main reason we wanted a multi protocol was because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data as we could get from Linux and Windows lengths. That was our value proposition for this solution."
"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
"The most valuable feature, currently, is the density of the system as hardware. I'm able to leverage the density of the product and remove bigger hardware which requires more space, cooling, and power costs, obviously. There are cost savings, obviously."
"The most valuables features of it are the deduplication and the compaction because the ratios are much better than what we normally get on our FAS storage."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"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."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"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"
"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."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"They can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
"Its stability is very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crash."
"To improve the product, they should make it more flexible."
"The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating the infrastructure."
"If you want to have a really dense data center then it's hard to have a big chunk of cabling going through everything."
"Because I like block mode, I'd like to see SAN connectivity. I would like to be able to easily put it into my current environment."
"I would like to see higher level graphics support because we are going to be doing some virtual desktop for our CAD software, and I want to be able to support AutoCAD and Cantillo on remote desktop machines."
"The problem is that it needs to be much more stable, for example, when I want to do the upgrade to 1.7 that just released, I also need to issue a ticket to the support guy in India and he asked me to deploy another mlock. There are a lot of manual steps compared with other products."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while NetApp HCI [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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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