We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE SimpliVity 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 has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"They offer top-tier support."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"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 biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It's very easy to integrate with the ACI network."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"The implementation process is okay."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"PCX card implementation improves speed."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"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."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"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."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"Unlike other options, you need to pay a subscription to Cisco yearly instead of paying for the hardware outright, which makes it more expensive in the long run."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"If we compare it with VMware, the VMware product is basically very open, and it can be easily integrated with any platform. VMware product is also available on the cloud and is not an appliance-based product, whereas Cisco HyperFlex is an appliance-based product. Companies that want to use HCI as a platform or as a service would prefer something without an appliance. A SaaS-based product is better for a customer who is using the cloud and has multiple resources, workflows, and devices on the cloud and wants to go for a hyper-converged solution. This is where improvement is needed. In addition to an appliance-based product, Cisco should provide a SaaS-based product. Its price should be lower. Cisco needs to work on the pricing model for this product. Its price is a big road blocker when competing against Nutanix and VMware, which are its main competitors."
"The price could be better. I think it's more expensive than VxRail. In the next release, I would like to see a better level of protection and availability with six clients."
"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."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"The product is expensive."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"They should optimize the administration stack because it is consuming too much memory. It ends up consuming 20% of memory. They have another product for this feature, but I would like to have this feature within HPE SimpliVity."
"Product doesn't scale."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 30 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 55 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 7.6, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2. 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 SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and FlexPod, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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