VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage product that is used in collaboration with VMware ESXi hypervisor and that provisions and manages storage based on policies, regardless of the underlying hardware. The solution enables you to prime your business for growth through its seamless evolution (it is integrated with vSphere and requires no new tools), its flexibility, and its multi-cloud capabilities. As an industry-leading software, VMware vSAN provides high levels of performance with minimal impact on CPU and memory.
The first 1-2 years of purchasing vSAN will be expensive. Thereafter, the longer you are running it, the more cost savings you will have.
Its reasonable, compare with other storage vendors
The first 1-2 years of purchasing vSAN will be expensive. Thereafter, the longer you are running it, the more cost savings you will have.
Its reasonable, compare with other storage vendors
VxRail is a hyper-converged appliance based on VMware virtual SAN Software and is jointly engineered and built with VMware, for VMware, to enhance Vmware. VxRail software-defined architecture simplifies compute, storage, virtualization, and management. It will safeguard performance, reliability, and flexibility across your organization with a broad range of workloads and applications from business-critical to next-gen. With VxRail, you are covered.
There is a permanent vSAN license included since it is required, but vCenter\ESXi host licensing should be validated in the purchase process.
Most of hyper-converged solutions require additional licenses for the virtualization layer (like VMware).
There is a permanent vSAN license included since it is required, but vCenter\ESXi host licensing should be validated in the purchase process.
Most of hyper-converged solutions require additional licenses for the virtualization layer (like VMware).
Rubrik is a backup and recovery solution that can be used as a converged data management platform for physical, virtual, and hybrid environments. The solution works to protect your data and applications from ransomware, operational failures, and rogue employees, and also helps your organization simplify data management and accelerate cloud mobility. In addition, Rubrik is designed for cloud integration and infinite scalability to enable hybrid cloud for all enterprises.
It’s simple, straightforward, and we were able to see 50% hard savings.
The setup cost is a bit high, but the solution is an all-in-one solution.
It’s simple, straightforward, and we were able to see 50% hard savings.
The setup cost is a bit high, but the solution is an all-in-one solution.
StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.
The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great.
We are happy with the price.
The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great.
We are happy with the price.
The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical.
There is no cost for software.
The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical.
There is no cost for software.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a top-ranking HCI software, cloud management tool, and Software Defined Storage (SDS) tool that is marketed as the foundation for users' hybrid clouds. It offers a powerful and secure hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver all data and applications at any scale and on any cloud. The solution offers a complete software stack that allows users to unify their hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Able to grow with smaller, more linear increments of investment
The basic license that comes with the box allows basic virtualization features but advanced automation features would require an upgrade of licenses.
Able to grow with smaller, more linear increments of investment
The basic license that comes with the box allows basic virtualization features but advanced automation features would require an upgrade of licenses.
HPE SimpliVity is an HCI software solution that provides powerful data protection, reducing data loss along with lowering the risk of ransomware attacks on your enterprise.
All-in license, simple and fair.
This solution, while costly as all these solutions are, was in fact less expensive than upgrading my old SAN.
All-in license, simple and fair.
This solution, while costly as all these solutions are, was in fact less expensive than upgrading my old SAN.
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:
Cisco is quite expensive, but not in the initial first buy.
Pricing is better if you buy more Cisco products.
Cisco is quite expensive, but not in the initial first buy.
Pricing is better if you buy more Cisco products.
Sangfor HCI is an IT infrastructure platform built on converged architecture. It integrates server virtualization, distributed storage, and networking. Sangfor HCI provides a unified management platform that converges compute, storage, networking, and security on a single software stack. This approach delivers a simplified architecture, ease of use, and reliability for business-critical applications.
The price of Sangfor is cheaper than other competing products.
The pricing of Sangfor is very competitive.
The price of Sangfor is cheaper than other competing products.
The pricing of Sangfor is very competitive.
HPE Alletra dHCI, a data storage solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), offers Disaggregated Hyperconverged Infrastructure (dHCI), separating storage from compute resources for independent scaling and management. Utilizing HPE Nimble Storage technology, known for AI-driven optimization, it ensures high performance and management efficiency. With scalability and agility, users can effortlessly expand storage or processing power as data requirements evolve. Additionally, boasting rapid deployment in under 15 minutes and a claimed 99.9999% data availability, HPE Alletra dHCI promises robust and reliable storage solutions.
I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent.
The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable.
I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent.
The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable.
HPE Hyper Converged solutions combine intuitive software with the reliability of a world class platform to deliver cloud-like simplicity to your business.
It could be cheaper, everything could be cheaper.
With this solution, I buy everything together, pre-packaged, pre-installed, and in just 15 minutes, it's installed.
It could be cheaper, everything could be cheaper.
With this solution, I buy everything together, pre-packaged, pre-installed, and in just 15 minutes, it's installed.
Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are pre-configured building blocks that reduce deployment
risks with certified configurations, improve storage efficiency by up to 50%1
, and can help
you build or scale your vSAN cluster faster.14 Whether you're just getting started, and/or
expanding your existing VMware environment, Dell EMC is here for you every step of the
way with consulting, education, deployment and support services for the entire solution.
There is a problem, which is the lack of an integrated price structure.
The price of the solution was reasonable.
There is a problem, which is the lack of an integrated price structure.
The price of the solution was reasonable.
Experience peace of mind with DataCore SANsymphony, the ultimate software-defined storage solution alleviating storage management challenges. Say goodbye to the complexities of managing different storage tiers and disruptions with SANsymphony's block-level storage virtualization technology, empowering you to automate capacity provisioning and data placement across diverse storage environments including SAN, DAS, HCI, and JBOD. Break down silos, control data placement, meet business continuity objectives, boost performance, and seamlessly expand or refresh hardware with SANsymphony. Benefit from features like asynchronous replication for disaster recovery, minimizing data loss, accelerating application responsiveness, and integrating new technology non-disruptively. Trusted by industry leaders like NASA, Thorntons, Inc., and TUI Cruises, DataCore SANsymphony guarantees unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and reliability, ensuring uninterrupted data access and application availability while reducing storage costs and inefficiencies.
In my case, the licensing per terabytes is very high and it must be licensed for each extra functionality.
This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage.
In my case, the licensing per terabytes is very high and it must be licensed for each extra functionality.
This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage.
StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage used to eliminate downtime. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and boasts users among thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The pricing of StorMagic SvSAN is fairly good because if you compare it with VMware, it's at a better price. This is an important thing to remember.
The licensing cost is $7,000 per two nodes for two terabytes.
The pricing of StorMagic SvSAN is fairly good because if you compare it with VMware, it's at a better price. This is an important thing to remember.
The licensing cost is $7,000 per two nodes for two terabytes.
FlexPod XCS is the secure platform your applications need from edge to cloud. Easily manage your suite of cloud-native, edge, and enterprise apps. Integrate advanced cloud services without compromising performance, security, reliability, or scale.
Pricing and licensing is very affordable from a FlexPod perspective.
It seems very cost effective once it's in place, and it's easy to expand and easy to add capacity without a lot of extra money.
Pricing and licensing is very affordable from a FlexPod perspective.
It seems very cost effective once it's in place, and it's easy to expand and easy to add capacity without a lot of extra money.
HC3 is an appliance-based hyperconverged infrastructure solution. HC3 combines servers, storage, virtualization, and backup/disaster recovery into a single appliance. This hyperconvergence of technologies radically simplifies IT infrastructure making it easier to implement and manage and significantly reduces the total cost of ownership of infrastructure. The HC3 hyperconverged appliance approach allows seamless, non-disruptive infrastructure scale out and automated, non-disruptive software and firmware updates. Our customers choose HC3 to reduce complexity and cost from IT infrastructure so they can focus their IT administration on improving applications and process rather than managing and maintaining complex infrastructure.
I give the pricing a nine out of ten.
rate HC3's pricing a five out of ten since it is affordable.
I give the pricing a nine out of ten.
rate HC3's pricing a five out of ten since it is affordable.
HPE StoreVirtual storage ensures that organisations can optimise the benefits of server virtualisation with cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery. The iSCSI-based, scale-out storage platform is easy to manage and change – meeting ongoing business demands without creating IT bottlenecks or application downtime. Overcoming the cost and management limitations of traditional storage area networks (SANs), HPE StoreVirtual nodes use storage clustering to form a single pool of resources that enable organisations to buy only what they need today, scaling non-disruptively to meet requirements in the future.
Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen.
One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included.
Licensing is not exactly straightforward, but not the worst I have ever seen.
One of the key features about it is that when you buy either a VSA license or a StoreVirtual appliance, all your software's included.
Huawei FusionCube is a hyper-converged infrastructure, which consists of computing, storage, network, virtualization, and management systems.
I rate Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure's pricing a six out of ten.
I rate Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure's pricing a six out of ten.
VxBlock and Vblock Systems simplify all aspects of IT and enable organizations to achieve better business outcomes faster. Seamlessly integrating enterprise-class compute, network, storage and virtualization technologies from industry leaders Cisco, Dell EMC, and VMware, VxBlock and Vblock Systems, powered by Intel Xeon processors, deliver the world's most advanced converged infrastructure: engineered, manufactured, managed, supported and sustained as one, allowing you to focus on your business.
We purchased this solution with a ten-year manufacturer warranty, and we have a three-year warranty with our local partner.
Its price is high. That's why people are now moving to hyper-converge.
We purchased this solution with a ten-year manufacturer warranty, and we have a three-year warranty with our local partner.
Its price is high. That's why people are now moving to hyper-converge.
For SMB, ROBO and Enterprises, who look to bring in quick deployment and operation simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses, our solution is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, hypervisor of choice, StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN and associated software into a single manageable layer. The HCA supports scale-up by adding disks and flash, and scale-out by adding extra nodes.
Its cost was reasonable.
This was all completed at an affordable price point for an SMB, which was also a key element for an NPO.
Its cost was reasonable.
This was all completed at an affordable price point for an SMB, which was also a key element for an NPO.
VxRack FLEX and VxFlex Ready Nodes, also known as the Flex family, create a server-based SAN by combining virtualization software, known as VxFlex OS, with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to deliver flexibility, scalability, and capacity on demand. Local storage resources are combined to create a virtual pool of block storage with varying performance tiers. The platform enables you to start small (with as little as four nodes) and scale incrementally. The Flex family provides enterprise-grade data protection, multi-tenant capabilities, and add-on enterprise features such as QoS, thin provisioning, and snapshots. VxFlex OS is the key enabler and provides an unmatched combination of performance, resiliency and flexibility to address enterprise data center needs. The unique features of VxFlex OS make it an excellent complement to Kubernetes for stateful applications, such as databases, continuous integration, logging and monitoring platforms.
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a cheaper solution than Nutanix and HyperFlex.
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a cheaper solution than Nutanix and HyperFlex.
CloudSphere is an intelligent cloud management platform that enables organizations to plan, optimize, secure, and scale their cloud adoption. The platform has three solutions to help organizations manage dynamic, multi-cloud environments, including cloud migration planning, cloud cost management, and cloud security posture management. By using application intelligence (AI), the platform is able to discover and collect all of the data points that collectively define an application across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. Because the solution is very scalable, it can accommodate companies of all sizes.
It depends on how that model will be used. It might be anywhere between $4 and $15 per license per month. It’s less expensive than other options.
The product is very expensive.
It depends on how that model will be used. It might be anywhere between $4 and $15 per license per month. It’s less expensive than other options.
The product is very expensive.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) is the company's product for converged infrastructure (CI), combining resources server, storage, networking, virtualization, and software management.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure - based on our leading OpenStack and virtualization platforms - provides co-located, scalable, software-defined compute and storage, driven by Red Hat Ansible Automation on economical, industry-standard hardware.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is an open-sourced, low-cost solution with full features.
It is quite pricey.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is an open-sourced, low-cost solution with full features.
It is quite pricey.
Building blocks for the Cohesity DataPlatform
Each Cohesity C4000 hyperconverged node provides compute, flash and HDD capacity to consolidate data and execute workflows. Scale your capacity as needed, starting with as little as three nodes, and scale out linearly by adding individual nodes.
It is on a per case basis.
It is on a per case basis.
Lenovo ThinkAgile SX for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub delivers a pre-integrated, easy-to-deploy rack-level solution for hybrid cloud to dramatically reduce time-to-value and total cost of ownership (TCO). The solution is based on Lenovo's industry-leading data center infrastructure and Microsoft Azure Stack Hub, an extension of Microsoft Azure Services to on-premises environments.