We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE Hyper Converged based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"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."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"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."
"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."
"It's very easy to integrate with the ACI network."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"It is a scalable solution."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"The problem is that we always have to keep an eye out for new releases to make sure that the version we're running is up-to-date."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"This solution is very costly."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 7th in HCI with 23 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 13th in HCI with 10 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "High performance solution that makes it easy to efficiently manage VM resources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE SimpliVity, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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