We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"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 automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"The most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The storage system is its most valuable feature. It has eliminated our entire need for having to worry about storage. We were storing a lot of syslog data and using a lot of templates in our data center. With the storage system, we are now saving an enormous amount of space."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"Most of our users are Cisco customers, so it fits in within the suites we use. Primarily for me, as a solution architect, it's the technology and architecture that is the most valuable. I know from my technical colleagues that it's easy to use and for the customer, the up-time is the most valuable asset. It's running, has low failure, and so on which is why we use it."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"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."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."
"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."
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"Unlike other options, you need to pay a subscription to Cisco yearly instead of paying for the hardware outright, which makes it more expensive in the long run."
"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. 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 Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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