"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"It is extremely stable."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The solution is stable."
"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"A very flexible solution."
"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 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."
"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."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"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 solution could improve by having more customization."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"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."
"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"User interface could be improved."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 22 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 16th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 7.0. 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 StoreVirtual writes "Flexible with numerous applications and good scalability; UI could be improved". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity and Rubrik, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and IBM Spectrum Virtualize.
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