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."I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"Support is very responsive."
"The solution is stable."
"It's very easy to integrate with the ACI network."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"The setup is very easy."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"The documentation could be better."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"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."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"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."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"I'm not a technical guy, and I am pretty much okay with the way it is, but it would help if it was closest to Nutanix in Gartner's Magic Quadrants. Nutanix very often beats us. Nutanix provides Acropolis for free. It probably would be great if we have a virtualization layer. It is something that might be lacking in our solution. We depend on VMware, and it is very expensive. It is lacking the software that allows us to install it with HPE and not depend on a third party."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"There may be issues around scaling."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 25 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 6th in HCI with 41 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 7.8, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.2. 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 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), HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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