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"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"It is extremely stable."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"It is scalable and easy to use."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"Great integration with backup software."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"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."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"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."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"This solution is very costly."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and FlexPod XCS, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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