We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Dell XC Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"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."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"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."
"It allows us to authorize our residents to come in using their own personal devices to access any of our clinical applications and ensure that the PHI is secure and protected."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"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."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"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."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."
"We are working with a lot of different technologies and trying to manage them with one tool. The API could be improved for better integration with other systems."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Dell XC Appliance is ranked 38th in HCI. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Dell XC Appliance is rated 8.0. 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 Dell XC Appliance writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Dell XC Appliance is most compared with .
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