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."Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"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."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"It is a scalable solution."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"The technical support is good. We are always thankful for the technical support from VMware. They are very supportive when we have a technical problem."
"The scalability has been quite good."
"Very easy to implement in any existing environment."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"If we decide to expand, vSAN could offer us some flexibility. We are researching ways to set this up from a new data center, which is located somewhere different from the current location right now."
"I like the orchestration feature."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the total hyperconverged facility."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"This solution is very costly."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"Based on my testing, I would like to expand deduplication to include hybrid deployments and not just for all-flash deployments."
"One of the things that we've had challenges with are when we place hosts into maintenance mode. Sometimes doing so triggers large re-sync processes which can be time-consuming and which have, at times, pushed the capacity to the threshold. I definitely think making some changes in that area would provide some big improvements."
"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."
"It should be easier to use."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"The main problem we had was hardware compatibility, finding the right hardware that was certified."
"Customers who are using Essentials Plus or even Essentials have to pay for technical support. However, they should not have to pay for support."
"We would really like them to look at what Nutanix did for day-one/day-two operations deployment: Bringing in the equipment, getting it deployed, getting it setup, and ease of use of one-click for deploying our 30-node solution. With vSAN we had to go into each one individually and set it up."
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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