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"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"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."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"Most of our users are Cisco customers, so it fits in within the suites we use. Primarily for me, as a solution architect, it's the technology and architecture that is the most valuable. I know from my technical colleagues that it's easy to use and for the customer, the up-time is the most valuable asset. It's running, has low failure, and so on which is why we use it."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"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 most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."
"The tool provides a single point for storing applications and it increases the availability of them. It also has improved the way we handle applications within VMware."
"The most valuable features are that the solution is vetted and validated and it's supported end-to-end."
"Our footprint is lower than it used to be."
"The nice thing about NetApp is the ease of administration. We have a new storage admin who did not do storage at all, and he has fallen right in with it. There are no real issues."
"It is innovative because it's bare metal and you can customize it easily. This brings a lot of benefits to the solution."
"It is a very well-thought-out solution with great virtualization. A good option we have is mapping a storage LUN onto an ESX cluster. That way, in case a particular ESX is down, it can migrate (using vMotion) to another host in the cluster, resulting in high-availability."
"It's a common platform, which provides for ease of use between all of the blade servers. It uses all the same tech, moving service profiles seamlessly across from one blade to the next. There is also combined support."
"DR has been tremendously easier."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"The solution has not reduced our data center costs."
"I think it is sufficient for now, but in the next generation, I'd just like to see bigger, faster, and better."
"For the next release, because I know that we are using Pure Storage, what I want to see is the GUI interfaces on this UCS monitor."
"We would like to have a single pane of glass available for it. It is something that the management in the business would like to have."
"Sometimes, it can take awhile for support cases to get to the right people, especially if it's not a P1 case."
"It would be very helpful if the upgrades for Cisco, VMware, and NetApp could be bundled together and performed at the same time."
"I would like to see more orchestration tools in FlexPod because we virtually end up with integrating the v-orchestration tool within FlexPod. I would like to see something like that included within FlexPod."
"We would like to see the automation improved because there has been a learning curve having to create the workflows."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while FlexPod XCS 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 FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System.
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