We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and StarWind Virtual Tape Library based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's quite easy to manage."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The price was right."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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."
"The most valuable feature was the backup - it was easy to back up. It was also very easy to administrate and manage the system; much easier and faster. Finally, it was easy to extend the disk capacities."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"You have to get the same servers with the same storage; they need to be identical. However, in vSAN or in VMware we don't have to do that. We can just add storage and manage it in the same server."
"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."
"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"
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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