We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"The implementation process is okay."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"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."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0. 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 Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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