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"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The integration between the storage and the server applications is the most valuable feature of this solution. It cuts down on the necessity to buy a secondary storage system.. It saves money in the long-run."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"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."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"It is a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute."
"It allows me to move a VM set and require extra performance. I can easily move them onto it and have it just run."
"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution. They're able to get set up and ready to go and start having their DevOp team deploy to that environment."
"It's an all-flash solution. NetApp guarantees 3-to-1 or more than 3-to-1. It has guaranteed performance, like 15K IOPS per node."
"The most valuable feature is the software design storage that really provided a faster, agile, easier to scale up and out storage path."
"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."
"HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth."
"It is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"This is a great product."
"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."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"I would like a lighter product; something which can be carried by a mere human. The typical size still looks like a stack of data center-sized servers, which is typically fine, but not so good if you want to carry it around."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"I would like for them to fall a little closer to like the VMware release model. The new features and new solutions tend to come from the VMware side. I would like for NetApp to follow along closely with VMware's release schedule."
"The deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."
"My biggest pain point is the installation part. I would like to see the appliance itself remove the entire switch that goes behind it and figure out how to do all the cluster interconnects within the box itself."
"It is difficult to get acclimated to all the new features quickly. The onboard process could be improved to bring clients up to speed faster."
"If you want to have a really dense data center then it's hard to have a big chunk of cabling going through everything."
"There are some legacy applications which still cannot be migrated. That is why we have to keep two environments: legacy and the new one. We would like to see more compatibility to move stuff."
"It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."
"The problem is that it needs to be much more stable, for example, when I want to do the upgrade to 1.7 that just released, I also need to issue a ticket to the support guy in India and he asked me to deploy another mlock. There are a lot of manual steps compared with other products."
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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