We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and StarWind Virtual Tape Library based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"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 system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"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."
"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."
"The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running."
"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. StarWind Virtual Tape Library report.
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