We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"The solution is stable."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"It is a complete package. For any kind of on-premises hyper-converged solution, we usually have to separate networks, but Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a complete solution. It has its own network and storage. The storage part is the most valuable feature."
"On the VDI side, because the storage is local to the HyperFlex, it was very easy and convenient. The performance is exceptional."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"A company can scale it easily."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"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."
"The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"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."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web. For example, for the integration to VMware, I had a case recently and I searched for more information but didn't find any."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
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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 StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. 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 StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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