We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Springpath [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It is extremely stable."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."
"You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"It's very easy to integrate with the ACI network."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"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."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"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."
"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"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."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."
"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."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. 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 Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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