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."The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"They offer top-tier support."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The price was right."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"Technical support has been fantastic. We always get answers quickly whenever we call."
"The scalability has been quite good."
"Easy-to-use, and easy-to-scale product."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is easy to deploy. It is easy to create and delete virtual servers. It is easy to create the load balancing and the clustering."
"The technical support is good."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"The product's initial setup phase was very straightforward."
"As a function of our core business, it's a sought after tool that helps us provide analytical support across a wide spectrum of client needs. It's allowed us to test out in our connected restaurant - "TheWorks" - a fully-functional restaurant experience center that allows our clients to discover the value of our connected solutions firsthand. We deploy vSAN in this customer-like environment within a hyperconvergent infrastruction (HCI) to give our clients a better understanding and help optimize data and the end-users' experience."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"The solution is not very stable."
"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."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"It would be ideal if clients didn't need to monitor the solution on a daily basis."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"I see room for improvement for vSAN just around general hardware compatibility and expanding that sort of matrix."
"There needs to be an increase in the supported memory and hard disk space, as it is an area where the product currently has certain shortcomings."
"I would like to see some of the more traditional SAN functions that are out the now. I can list them: being able to Snapshot on the back-end, better de-dupe, and better compression. Those are the major ones."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
"There is a room for improvement on the latest version of compatibility with the VMware product, especially for vSAN and with other vendors on their motherboards and driver configurations."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 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, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, HPE Alletra dHCI and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. VMware vSAN report.
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