"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"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 virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"They offer top-tier support."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"The most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."
"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"Integration is most valuable. This is a reference architecture. So, we don't have to design something from scratch and figure out how it is going to work."
"It reduced the total cost of ownership."
"The feature I have found most valuable is data protection."
"The solution’s validated designs for major enterprise apps are also extremely important in our organization. We don't always have time to research products and solutions ourselves. By going with a validated design, we're assured that it's the latest and greatest. It's supported by the three major vendors that we deal with."
"The solution's granular scalability and broad application support helps us to meet the needs of diverse workloads."
"FlexPod is the primary solution we recommend for clients with high-availability server requirements. Our clients find FlexPod's management helpful. You can manage everything via plugins."
"If the network or site is down, you just need to go to a single vendor. You don't have to open up multiple cases with each vendor to get things done. That is one of the financial benefits of this solution."
"We’ve seen an improvement in application performance."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"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."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"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."
"Its price could be better."
"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"As the technology grows, we're looking to upgrade our storage systems to something faster, and we're hoping to improve our servers with next-generation technology. So we want to enhance our server infrastructure and explore server virtualization with VMware. That's the improvement that our clients are demanding."
"Areas for improvement would be the support for the engineering team, who seem to have no clue when you open a case, the communication with and recognition of resellers, and the documentation, with could be more detailed."
"I'd like them to bring back the GUI for NetApp ONTAP. They changed the interface in version 9.8, and it's not great. In 9.9 they've tried to bring it back a little bit, but it's still not great."
"They need to improve the user interface to make it easier to work in this environment. The older version is poor."
"We would like one-click upgrades."
"Since 2018 or 2019, maybe due to COVID and the chipsets, my DIMMs are dying left and right."
"They just announced that they are going to move it along with Intersight from Cisco. That can be a private or public cloud, which is one of the areas where it can grow more and has a lot of potential."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 22 reviews while FlexPod is ranked 1st in Converged Infrastructure with 7 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while FlexPod is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "An all-in-one option that is stable and offers good management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FlexPod writes "The flexibility, operational efficiency, and scalability of the solution are good". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity and NetApp HCI, whereas FlexPod is most compared with Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Dell PowerEdge VRTX, VxRail, Dell PowerFlex and HPE ConvergedSystem.
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