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"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"Cisco technical support is very skilled. From what I've had to access, there were quick responses and the necessary escalation."
"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"The software defines networking, storage, and processing."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. The management is easy, and you don't have to have a lot of knowledge about storage, network, etc. It is simple to manage and simple to implement, and that's its key feature."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"Technical support is perfect. They explain to us the solution in a very clear and simple way. When we call them, they know the right answer and get the right person automatically."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"The price could be better. I think it's more expensive than VxRail. In the next release, I would like to see a better level of protection and availability with six clients."
"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
"We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution."
"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"The solution's price could be lower, but it holds good value for the money. The VMware licensing costs have skyrocketed since Broadcom's takeover."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"Once you select the size of SimpliVity, it could be risky for you to downsize it because you may need maybe to reimplement some things."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
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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 SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. 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 SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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