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."It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"It's very easy to integrate with the ACI network."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"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."
"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."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."
"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."
"One of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application."
"The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running."
"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."
"We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."
"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
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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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