We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and CloudSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."
"Great integration with backup software."
"We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional."
"The feature that we are most interested in is the scalability. When needed, we are able to add more nodes and scale it up further."
"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."
"We do not need to install any appliances or any agents."
"Provides multiple kinds of services for managing the clouds of multiple customers."
"For the customers I work with, it provides flexibility as far as storage is concerned, so it's security and access."
"The product is helpful for the management, optimization, and utilization of resources."
"When I started using CloudSphere, it wasn't mature, and it had multiple issues. For example, my team experienced server issues while using the solution, but recently, I noticed how much CloudSphere has improved. There used to be some latency issues with CloudSphere. It even gave error messages in the past when you select an option such as "the web server is not responding", but it has improved a lot, and now I don't get any errors from CloudSphere. What I like best about CloudSphere is that it has a lot of beneficial features, and it has a single pane for managing multi-cloud environments, which I find very helpful, and it's the main benefit you can get from CloudSphere."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"Its price could be better."
"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."
"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."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."
"When we start the scanning of, for example, 500 servers, it will not handle the scan. We need to differentiate the jobs - for example, one job for 100 servers, a second job for another 100 servers, et cetera."
"The main issue I experienced from CloudSphere was recently resolved, but an area for improvement in the solution is that it lacks the functionality of migrating resources from one public cloud to another. If CloudSphere could provide that functionality, that would be very beneficial to users and companies."
"The next feature I would like to have full disclosure of what's being done with the data."
"The solution must have a single management console for the resources and VMs."
"There are quite a number of services that can't be deployed using CloudSphere."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while CloudSphere is ranked 14th in Cloud Migration with 5 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while CloudSphere is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CloudSphere writes "Great discovery, good support, and generally reliable". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas CloudSphere is most compared with SkyKick Cloud Manager and Microsoft Azure.
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