We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and Springpath [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"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."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"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."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"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."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. 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 Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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