We performed a comparison between Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is the relocating of resources."
"The best thing about the solution is that it combines network, storage, and compute functions in one place. Unlike the traditional three-tier setup, you don't need to buy separate devices for each part. This makes it much easier to control and manage everything in one go without switching between different places for different tasks."
"The solution is stable and everything is taken care of through the Huawei support center. They ensure everything is running smoothly. It's been very good."
"The product is very reliable. We haven't had any major issues with the product since we bought it."
"The pricing of the solution is excellent. It's one of the main reasons a customer chooses Huawei. It's much, much better than VMware."
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"It is easy to find information out there, not only from searching the web, but even the times I have engaged VMware support."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is easy to deploy. It is easy to create and delete virtual servers. It is easy to create the load balancing and the clustering."
"It allows us to put our infrastructure in remote locations and still get the same performance we get from our onsite SAN solutions."
"Technical support has been very good. They respond pretty fast, especially if we have a critical issue. Their responses have been great."
"It helped us survive power outages in one of our data centers, then continued to function without a hitch."
"It easily integrates with all types of storage."
"I have used VMware for 15 years and I never had any problems with stability."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"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)."
"Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure could improve the security of the solution. However, we are comfortable using it. Additionally, there could be more information provided for the solution and the interface could be more user-friendly."
"I want the product to be used more efficiently and for our system to connect easily with cloud services like AWS, Oracle, and IBM. We can also improve by adding advanced features like snapshots, replication, and encryption, allowing for more growth. Introducing features such as data duplication, data analytics, and AI-driven insights will improve its deployments."
"The solution currently does not have cloud integration."
"t would be helpful if the solution was able to collaborate or integrate with other well-known monitoring tools. Right now, you have to work hard to get it configured. It would be a good selling point for them if they could open up their solution to more integrations."
"Technical support needs improvement. There's a lot of language barriers."
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"The main problem we had was hardware compatibility, finding the right hardware that was certified."
"The upgrading process could be simplified."
"We plan to switch products since the hardware nowadays is a little bit outdated and we need to scale up a bit."
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
"A vSAN cluster must have compression and deduplication to be an all-flash array, but it's not supported with a hybrid array. Deduplication and compression work better with an all-flash array, so I think that VMware should give customers the option to activate and support this feature for hybrid arrays. Other products like Nutanix support this."
"As no product is 100% perfect, the price for VMware vSAN could still be improved, though it is good when compared to some of its competitors."
"Pricing is something of a concern."
"It could be cheaper."
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Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is ranked 16th in HCI with 5 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is rated 7.8, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure writes "Combines network, storage, and compute functions in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure vs. VMware vSAN report.
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