"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"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 biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"It is a complete package. For any kind of on-premises hyper-converged solution, we usually have to separate networks, but Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a complete solution. It has its own network and storage. The storage part is the most valuable feature."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."
"The ability to size the available space in a way that matches our company's needs is most valuable. For instance, you can decide if you want 80/20, 70/30, or 60/40 space. Redundancy depends on your needs without changing the appliance. You just add space and decide the percentage of space that you need free and the percentage of space that you need for backup. It is all automatic, and you don't have to do anything. You just add space, and the system automatically configures itself with the chosen option."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"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."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"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 pricing is pretty expensive."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."
"Its stability is very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crash."
"The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating the infrastructure."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 22 reviews while NetApp HCI is ranked 18th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 4 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while NetApp HCI is rated 6.6. 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 NetApp HCI writes "Crashes continuously, complex to deploy, and bad after-sales support". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, whereas NetApp HCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. NetApp HCI report.
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