Compare Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure vs. VMware vSAN
Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is ranked 20th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 1 review while VMware vSAN is ranked 1st in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 55 reviews. Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is rated 7.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure writes "Reliable with fair pricing, but the interface could be more user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is most compared with Nutanix, VMware vSAN and HPE SimpliVity, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with Nutanix, VxRail and HPE SimpliVity.
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The most valuable feature was the backup - it was easy to back up. It was also very easy to administrate and manage the system; much easier and faster. Finally, it was easy to extend the disk capacities. The integration between the storage and the server applications is the most valuable feature of this solution. It cuts down on the necessity to buy a secondary storage system.. It saves money in the long-run. The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained. Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial. The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network. The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center. The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization. The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers. | The product is very reliable. We haven't had any major issues with the product since we bought it. | We can also create test cases. We can even throttle down performance or release more performance. So, we can run more precise test scenarios. When we do to do more scaled load testing, we can run more dense workloads and still have the same results across all specific nodes The newer versions of this solution are much more stable and easier to manage. 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. The most valuable feature is the ability to continue our business needs and have higher visibility. It has definitely increased our business productivity levels. To me, VMware is a leader of the visualizations. I think everyone just follow VMware. I have used VMware for 15 years and I never had any problems with stability. vSAN provides default HA configurations, where if any host goes down, the VM moves around within the host. Even though the disks are local, the VMs moves around with the vSAN disk and vSAN provides a high availability on its own. |
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I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users. The initial setup of the Cisco HyperFlex HX platform was medium-level difficult. It's a little bit different from traditional servers. It takes getting used to the learning curve. Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex. The additional feature I would like to see included in the next release of this solution is more security. We want to add more data servers to all the hosts all over the world. We have 140 hosts that connect to one data center in Manila. The scalability could use improvement. The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running. We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution. | The solution currently does not have cloud integration. | When we talk about improvements for vSAN, there is some way to go from a at least stability perspective. Adding all these new features is nice, but we are now at the level that most of the features you need in production are there. Upgradability could be a bit easier sometimes. We are now where vSAN can be updated without ESXi, but there is still enough dependency. So that would be good if that actually would uncoupled even more. This solution would benefit from better collaboration with Cisco for driver updates. I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up. I would love for this product to be cheaper and easier to configure. It is an expensive solution. The vSan product uses a software system called Vsphere to monitor the system. It is sometimes difficult to manage the PCs within the systems. 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. |
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It's much more expensive than rack servers. It was an issue, but when you compare it to the number of people who were administrative assistants before, it's on the positive ROI side. It's much cheaper. We currently have a perpetual license, which is kind of unlimited, so we don't have the normal licensing cost, yet. Our licensing costs are large, but it is combined between all of the Cisco products that we have. One of the challenges we have with HyperFlex is that they have a subscription fee for the operating system that runs on it, and if I remember correctly, it costs approximately $15,000 USD per month. It is relatively expensive, but it can easily return value by freeing up other resources. It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year. Our licensing is Hybrid. We have all of our applications for billing and outage management through this. They are not the cheapest on the market. But there's an old saying I like to quote: "If you know that you are getting what you pay for, it's fine if it's expensive." | Information Not Available | ROI from an administrative perspective is clearly much better because I only have to deal with one user interface. I'd love for this product to be cheaper. The only problem I have with VMware is the price. It is a good product, but it is expensive. With vSAN, we didn't find the market that competitive. The vSAN is somewhat expensive to license. The vSAN licensing is not an inexpensive product. It does cost more than hypervisor. We did consider other hyperconverged solutions. It usually came down to price. vSan was the most cost effective thing. What made us go with this solution was price point. When you can utilize existing storage infrastructure, and not have to continually purchase new SAN products out there that are going up in price as time goes by, then it's a wonderful thing. |
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| FusionCube 6000, FusionCube 6000C, FusionCube 2000, FusionCube Virtual SAN-Ready Nodes | vSAN | |
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The Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform is a purpose-built, high-performance, scale-out file system with a wide array of enterprise-class data management services. The data platform’s innovations redefine distributed storage technology, giving you complete hyper-convergence with enterprise storage features:
| Huawei FusionCube is a hyper-converged infrastructure, which consists of computing, storage, network, virtualization, and management systems. | VMware vSAN is the industry-leading software powering Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solutions. What vSAN Does
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Learn more about Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series | Learn more about Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure | Learn more about VMware vSAN |
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Manufacturing Company18% Energy/Utilities Company12% Comms Service Provider12% Healthcare Company9% Software R&D Company35% Comms Service Provider11% Retailer7% Manufacturing Company6% | No Data Available | Healthcare Company17% Retailer15% University9% Manufacturing Company8% Software R&D Company31% Comms Service Provider12% Manufacturing Company8% Retailer8% |
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Small Business14% Midsize Enterprise11% Large Enterprise75% Small Business4% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise77% | No Data Available | Small Business28% Midsize Enterprise18% Large Enterprise54% Small Business14% Midsize Enterprise28% Large Enterprise58% |
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