We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."
"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"Its price could be better."
"We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution."
"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."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"Stability is really poor, especially the storage stability. We lost data. There were disruptions of clusters and that's one big pain point of the solution. It's not stable enough, the documentation is not good, there's not much documentation available. For every call we need a tech engineer."
"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony.
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