We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Springpath [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"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."
"It allows us to authorize our residents to come in using their own personal devices to access any of our clinical applications and ensure that the PHI is secure and protected."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"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."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."
"I would like for them to develop integration with other technologies, like SD Access. It's still lacking an enhancement management player."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"Its price could be better."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. 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 Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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