We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"The feature that we are most interested in is the scalability. When needed, we are able to add more nodes and scale it up further."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"Great integration with backup software."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"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."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"A very flexible solution."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"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."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."
"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"The additional feature I would like to see included in the next release of this solution is more security. We want to add more data servers to all the hosts all over the world. We have 140 hosts that connect to one data center in Manila."
"We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"User interface could be improved."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony.
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