We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"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."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"Support is very responsive."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"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."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"The solution is scalable."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"The most valuable aspect of the HPE SimpliVity is the DL380 G10. We have mostly been using VMware and Hyper-V. On one side we have Hyper-V and the other side we have the VMware."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"The ease of setting up our DR site with SimpliVity. It was very simple. I did not have to set up a separate storage, server, and networking environments."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"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."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"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."
"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"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."
"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"The solution's price could be lower, but it holds good value for the money. The VMware licensing costs have skyrocketed since Broadcom's takeover."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"Its deployment should be easier."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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