We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"The price was right."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."
"It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"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 ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"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."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."
"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."
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place"
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"We have had some failures out-of-the-box. We have had some failures with the OmniStack module. One thing that we didn't fully understand was how much of the internal memory was used up by the OmniStack piece, which basically makes up SimpliVity."
"Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
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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 Scale Computing HC3.
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