We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and StarWind Virtual SAN 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.
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"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."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"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."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"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."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"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."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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