We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"They offer top-tier support."
"It is extremely stable."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"The solution has many good features."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"Scalability was another thing I was looking at. The solution, by its very nature, is designed to be expandable and flexible, so you don't have to buy performance you don't need today, but you're also not stuck with something you can't expand."
"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."
"The most valuable feature is the convergence."
"We like SnapMirror and we've been using it for many years. We also like the object storage tools, as well as cloud sync for customers wanting to integrate between the cloud and local."
"It is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do."
"It is a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"The solution is not very stable."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"The networking needs improvement."
"If you want to have a really dense data center then it's hard to have a big chunk of cabling going through everything."
"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
"The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment."
"I would like to see higher level graphics support because we are going to be doing some virtual desktop for our CAD software, and I want to be able to support AutoCAD and Cantillo on remote desktop machines."
"It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."
"There have been some drive type of issues where we have to apply a new code level. Storage nodes kick certain drives until they act as though they have failed when really they haven't. You just have to reinsert them, then they go on about their happy way. It's sort of a bug."
"It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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