We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"This is not the only product we use, so we have other solutions to compare it with. We can compare different products and different vendors and tell our customers which products have which advantages and disadvantages so that they can leverage these products in their own environment. This product helps us to understand the customer's needs and what issues they can run into."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"The UCS, which is by far the best management tool there is on the market, regardless of vendor. It's the only tool I see that gives you the opportunity to size and scale all the assets and capacity you have in your data center, from a unified view."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth."
"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 a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute."
"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."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"Scalability was another thing I was looking at. The solution, by its very nature, is designed to be expandable and flexible, so you don't have to buy performance you don't need today, but you're also not stuck with something you can't expand."
"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution. They're able to get set up and ready to go and start having their DevOp team deploy to that environment."
"The most valuable feature is the convergence."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"I'd like to see some additional graphics capabilities because I'd like to look at some virtual desktop integration for CAD software."
"HCI has not enabled us to consolidate workloads or break down silos and has not increased application performance. It has also not resulted in more efficient use of compute resources."
"I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."
"I'm not a fan of how they don't log you out properly from some of their web tools for management."
"If you want to have a really dense data center then it's hard to have a big chunk of cabling going through everything."
"To improve the product, they should make it more flexible."
"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."
"It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."
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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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