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."StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"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."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"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."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"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."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"Technical support is perfect. They explain to us the solution in a very clear and simple way. When we call them, they know the right answer and get the right person automatically."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"If we compare it with VMware, the VMware product is basically very open, and it can be easily integrated with any platform. VMware product is also available on the cloud and is not an appliance-based product, whereas Cisco HyperFlex is an appliance-based product. Companies that want to use HCI as a platform or as a service would prefer something without an appliance. A SaaS-based product is better for a customer who is using the cloud and has multiple resources, workflows, and devices on the cloud and wants to go for a hyper-converged solution. This is where improvement is needed. In addition to an appliance-based product, Cisco should provide a SaaS-based product. Its price should be lower. Cisco needs to work on the pricing model for this product. Its price is a big road blocker when competing against Nutanix and VMware, which are its main competitors."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"The price could be better. I think it's more expensive than VxRail. In the next release, I would like to see a better level of protection and availability with six clients."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"They should have more blade options and more configuration flexibility. Also, the price is expensive. It should be cheaper but it is worth the price."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
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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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