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

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Pros

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

"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."

"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."

"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."

"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."

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"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."

"The part I like most about it is just that it does not require a lot of touch. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and it is straightforward."

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

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

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

"StorMagic SvSAN's most valuable feature is its simplicity, requiring only 30 minutes to install, configure, and deploy."

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

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

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Cons

"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."

"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."

"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."

"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."

"I would like for them to develop integration with other technologies, like SD Access. It's still lacking an enhancement management player."

"The initial setup of profiles and templates could be improved. Maybe some end profiles that you can use based on your type of deployment would be good."

"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."

"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."

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"Maybe the hardware compatibility could be expanded or widened."

"While StorMagic SvSAN performs well, its scalability regarding CPU and server expansion needs improvement."

"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."

"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."

"StorMagic does not have extensive scalability capabilities as it is tailored for SMBs. If catering to a bigger enterprise customer, scalability might be a concern."

"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"

"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."

"It would be beneficial if they adopted the recommended configuration for other vendors and offered pre-built, pre-configured scenarios with best practices readily available on their websites."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you don't look at the costs of the systems, the scalability is quite good."

"We have a yearly license."

"There is no additional licensing cost other than the cost for each part."

"Our licensing costs are large, but it is combined between all of the Cisco products that we have."

"It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year."

"HyperFlex is a little pricey."

"I would like the pricing to be cheaper."

"It is highly priced compared to other vendors."

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

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

"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."

"StorMagic SvSAN provided substantial savings."

"The product has good pricing."

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

"I would rate the cost a one out of ten with ten being the most costly."

"The price of the solution is reasonable. Our budget was two terabytes and the price met our use case well."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Healthcare Company

11%

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

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series?

It's easy to get the tool started.

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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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