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 like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"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 most valuable feature of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is the relocating of resources."
"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."
"The product is very reliable. We haven't had any major issues with the product since we bought it."
"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."
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"It has a single pane of glass for management and operational control, which is the most valuable feature. The integrated storage is also valuable."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple."
"It's completely hyper-converged, so it's very convenient."
"The installation is very easy."
"Technical support has been very good. They respond pretty fast, especially if we have a critical issue. Their responses have been great."
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"High availability is a valuable aspect of this solution."
"In my opinion, vSAN is the most natural way to migrate to a fully hyperconverged solution. If a customer needs a more scalable solution with consolidated management, vSAN is excellent."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"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."
"The solution currently does not have cloud integration."
"Technical support needs improvement. There's a lot of language barriers."
"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."
"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."
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"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
"The product can be improved in a couple of ways. One of those would be that they have a lot of hidden features, that are through the CLI, that would be great to have in the GUI, or just be more open about those features. It's something called RVC. It's a tool in the back end. It's a really great tool, but I had to find it through Reddit. So more information on stuff like that would be great. Also, in the user interface, giving us more features and more reporting that we can do from vSphere itself would be helpful."
"If the support could be provided more quickly, it would be very helpful."
"They can package it in a way that is specific to the hardware infrastructure and the hardware platform. It should stay fairly up to date with the drivers and the manufacturer issues. The problem with uncoupling the proprietary technology and component capabilities is that by uncoupling them, you run into some concerns or challenges over the poor performance model. These concerns really come when you start talking about high performance, high bandwidth, and high availability types of environments. While vSAN is a leader, in a critical view, it is not about being cost-effective. It is more about the immediate impact of money loss to the business in critical applications where we want to maintain a continuous operational 59 model. It is, however, good for QA/QC tasks. I don't necessarily know how it works in regards to VDI or virtual desktop infrastructure."
"This solution would benefit from better collaboration with Cisco for driver updates."
"The usability is pretty good but it could use a little tweaking on the UI, with a clearer definition of exactly what some of the things do."
"I would like to see more support for applications. I think currently it only supports applications between two vSAN clusters."
"It can be very expensive."
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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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