Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs StorMagic SvSAN comparison

Cisco and StorMagic are both solutions in the HCI category. Additionally, 89% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of StorMagic users who would recommend it.

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96% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

StorMagic SvSAN

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Defined Storage (SDS) (6th), HCI (8th)

Featured Reviews

Nuno Mendes

IT Manager - Resp.Department at Parvalorem

High performance solution that makes it easy to efficiently manage VM resources

In our case as a credit recovery company working with the state, our infrastructure is fixed and stable as we don't have the same need for growth as other types of companies. That said, one of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application. Since we as a company will only be operating for perhaps the next ten years, when our HyperFlex solution comes to its end-of-life in 2024 our next step will likely not be with HyperFlex or any other solution from Cisco. Instead, from a financial point of view, we will likely turn toward a cloud solution because, that way, we won't have to spend so much money on physical infrastructure. We are, after all, only a small company and HyperFlex can be very expensive for other companies of our size, whether in Portugal or elsewhere like the United States. One other area for improvement is in regard to HyperFlex's integration with VMware. HyperFlex integrates with a specific version of VMware in such a way that HyperFlex doesn't always resolve security issues with VMware at the same pace as what you see in native implementations of VMware. This has happened in one or two situations in the past. On the other hand, the integration is otherwise adequate, especially in terms of availability and virtualization features (such as being able to split up each of our four hosts within VMware).

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Georgi Petrov

Global Data Center & Disaster Recovery Manager at Curium Pharma

Allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain

What we like the most is how easy it is to implement. I am able to bring fully functional virtual infrastructure in a matter of two hours with StorMagic SvSAN, compared to other technologies that are very complex. StorMagic SvSAN does not have hardware-specific requirements and is hypervisor agnostic, which makes it easier compared to competitors like HPE SimpliVity that are limited to specific hardware. This solution has allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."

"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."

"I like Cisco Intersight."

"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."

"Support is very responsive."

"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."

"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."

"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."

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"StorMagic SvSAN helped us save around sixty percent on previous costs."

"The solution is cost-effective and user-friendly."

"We now have enough storage, so even when another big project arises, we don't need to worry about storage capacity."

"The solution is cost-effective and user-friendly."

"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."

"Overall, I rate it ten out of ten."

"StorMagic SvSAN has significantly enhanced our organization's ability to manage big data."

"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."

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Cons

"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."

"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."

"Stability is really poor, especially the storage stability. We lost data. There were disruptions of clusters and that's one big pain point of the solution. It's not stable enough, the documentation is not good, there's not much documentation available. For every call we need a tech engineer."

"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."

"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."

"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."

"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."

"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."

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"StorMagic SvSAN's management or witness server, a standard Linux box, lacks security hardening."

"StorMagic SvSAN can improve by simplifying the implementation and training."

"StorMagic SvSAN's management or witness server, a standard Linux box, lacks security hardening."

"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."

"The solution is currently limited to two nodes, which might be a challenge for larger enterprises."

"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."

"One area for improvement would be to enhance the Edge Control capabilities. Currently, it shows the VSA and key providers but doesn't offer much in terms of VSA configuration management."

"The StorMagic console needs embedded monitoring capabilities to improve interoperability with other platforms. While StorMagic offers open APIs, direct integration with popular monitoring tools like GearOps or Grafana is lacking."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is relatively expensive, but it can easily return value by freeing up other resources."

"It's much more expensive than rack servers. It was an issue, but when you compare it to the number of people who were administrative assistants before, it's on the positive ROI side. It's much cheaper."

"When we negotiated with Cisco for the HyperFlex solution, they gave us a good price because they wanted to break into the market in Portugal for the first time. However, in general, I think it's a very expensive solution. It's a huge amount of money to acquire this kind of infrastructure."

"The price is a bit high. It could be better, but the product is worth the cost."

"HyperFlex is a little pricey."

"We currently have a perpetual license, which is kind of unlimited, so we don't have the normal licensing cost, yet."

"We would not have invested if we didn't feel the return was there for our customers."

"The product is expensive. Other solutions are cheaper."

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"While it is less than other solutions, such as vSAN, for instance, it is still significant. However, it is well worth it in terms of the quality of the product and the support that it allows me to have. We are buying the flagship product from them. We are always buying premium support and all the features that we need, so it is a little bit steep upfront, but it is less than other solutions and comes with excellent support."

"StorMagic SvSAN provided substantial savings."

"While I lack specific cost details, StorMagic's segmented pricing options offer valuable flexibility, allowing companies to choose solutions based on their needs and capacity."

"The licensing cost is $7,000 per two nodes for two terabytes."

"While not the cheapest option, it offers comparable functionality for 20 to 30 percent lower than its competitors."

"It's fairly cheap when compared to other options. But it can be improved as some features may not be available in the standard license. The vendor positions it as an edge product, so it isn't suitable to compare with VMware vSAN or Nutanix because that's another product altogether."

"The pricing for StorMagic is okay, but as a distributor, I suggest some reduction."

"The pricing of StorMagic SvSAN is fairly good because if you compare it with VMware, it's at a better price. This is an important thing to remember."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Comms Service Provider

14%

Healthcare Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	24
Midsize Enterprise	17
Large Enterprise	57

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

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What do you like most about StorMagic SvSAN?

It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorMagic SvSAN?

StorMagic SvSAN is very cost-efficient. The pricing model, based on the usable storage capacity, is simple and predictable. You know exactly how much each storage tier costs, and upgrading is strai...

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What needs improvement with StorMagic SvSAN?

Maybe the hardware compatibility could be expanded or widened. Another point could be to change the price model since it has lots of capacity but does not always fit our pricing requirements. We ar...

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Overview

The Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform is a purpose-built, high-performance, scale-out file system with a wide array of enterprise-class data management services. The data platform’s innovations redefine distributed storage technology, giving you complete hyper-convergence with enterprise storage features:

Enterprise-class data management
Continuous data optimization
Securely encrypted storage
Dynamic data placement
Clusterwide parallel data distribution
Linear and incremental scaling
API-based data platform architecture
A simplified approach

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StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage used to eliminate downtime. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and boasts users among thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

SvSAN is a lightweight solution that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized businesses and edge computing environments such as retail stores, manufacturing plants and even oil rigs at sea.

SvSAN provides organizations with a simple, 'set and forget' solution that enables lightweight high availability as a virtual SAN (VSAN) with a witness VM that can be local, in the cloud, or as-a-service, and support up to 1,000 2-node clusters. It provides a low barrier to entry with capacity-based licensing and minimal hardware requirements, allowing organizations to use existing equipment. Plus, any IT professional can deploy and manage 1,000 sites as easily as 1, with automation tools and scripts.

SvSAN gives organizations choice and control by allowing configurations of any x86 server models and storage types, even mixed within a cluster, while vSphere, Hyper-V or KVM hypervisors can be used. It is built to perform, with code that eliminates performance bottlenecks and caching features to boost performance and prevent over-provisioning. SvSAN accommodates future growth and technologies too, with support for containers and VMs, and allows compute and storage to be scaled easily and independently.

SvSAN's additional features help to deliver 100% uptime with synchronous mirroring and no single point of failure, even with poor, unreliable networks, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades. Disaster protection is provided with capability for stretched clusters that reduce risk, plus extensive integrations with backup and DR providers and the option to add a third node to clusters. SvSAN also ensures data security with FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption, software RAID options and the elimination of split-brain risk.

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Sample Customers

BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Ready Pac Foods, Bryant University, Bellevue Group, KPIT Technologies, City Harvest

Sheetz Inc., Giant Eagle, RWE Renewables, Keiser Corp., TDK, Oxford University, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Rommelsbacher, Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort, Eugen Forschner GmbH

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