We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged 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."With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"It is easy to work with, easy to handle, and easy to manage."
"Very good VCG notification feature."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSAN are that it receives updates frequently, has good compression, optimized storage, and they provide webinars on what is new. Additionally, the integration with third-party products is good and it is easy to manage."
"vSAN is one of the easiest implementations of any VMware product. It's almost like click it to enable it, then you're almost done."
"It helped us survive power outages in one of our data centers, then continued to function without a hitch."
"Overall the solution is very good."
"The most valuable thing about vSAN is that all of its features have been working well for us for the past two years. We haven't had an issue with them."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"This solution is very costly."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"The solution must provide better customization."
"I would like to see it be more hardware-agnostic. Other than that, the only other complication is - and it has gotten better with the newer versions - that lately, once you're running an all-flash, if you need to grow or scale down your infrastructure, it's a long process. You need to evacuate all data and make sure you have enough space on the host, then add more hosts or take out hosts. That process is a little bit complex. You cannot scale as needed or shrink as needed."
"There's a lot that can be done to segregate. That may be available now in vSAN 7, I suppose, however, the deduplication and compression can be segregated."
"The solution functions as the marketing says, as long as you follow certain rules."
"The price can be reduced. Small businesses cannot afford this solution."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. VMware vSAN report.
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