We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and HPE Hyper Converged based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"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 features are resiliency and data protection."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"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 needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, 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". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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