We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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."The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"The integration between the storage and the server applications is the most valuable feature of this solution. It cuts down on the necessity to buy a secondary storage system.. It saves money in the long-run."
"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."
"Support is very responsive."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"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."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"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."
"This is a great product."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."
"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Dell XC Appliance doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Dell XC Appliance is rated 8.0. 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 Dell XC Appliance writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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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