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."Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."
"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 product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."
"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."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."
"We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"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."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"If we compare it with VMware, the VMware product is basically very open, and it can be easily integrated with any platform. VMware product is also available on the cloud and is not an appliance-based product, whereas Cisco HyperFlex is an appliance-based product. Companies that want to use HCI as a platform or as a service would prefer something without an appliance. A SaaS-based product is better for a customer who is using the cloud and has multiple resources, workflows, and devices on the cloud and wants to go for a hyper-converged solution. This is where improvement is needed. In addition to an appliance-based product, Cisco should provide a SaaS-based product. Its price should be lower. Cisco needs to work on the pricing model for this product. Its price is a big road blocker when competing against Nutanix and VMware, which are its main competitors."
"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."
"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."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"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"
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"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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