We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and SteelFusion 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 StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is the integration with everything in a much smoother, such as in physical and virtual environments. VMware NSX is a simpler solution but, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is more robust compared to VMware NSX."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."
"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."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"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."
"We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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