"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"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."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"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."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"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."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"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."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"You have to get the same servers with the same storage; they need to be identical. However, in vSAN or in VMware we don't have to do that. We can just add storage and manage it in the same server."
"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."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 22 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 14th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 4 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 9.6. 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 HPE Hyper Converged writes "High performance that gives an advantage over traditional virtualization". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Acropolis AOS and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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