We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"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."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"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."
"This is a strong product and it works very well, and the processes around it continue to grow and mature."
"It is a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute."
"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."
"We're trying to move to a much more API-driven management of all of our products, and NetApp's product is, from all the SDS providers we have seen, the most fully-baked API out there."
"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution. They're able to get set up and ready to go and start having their DevOp team deploy to that environment."
"In terms of helping us with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds, we do store data internally and in Azure. It has allowed us to consolidate a number of workloads, across our old NetApp and a number of our older storage arrays, into a single unit and have that unit also working with Azure."
"The solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment."
"HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"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."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"The solution is not very stable."
"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."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
"My biggest pain point is the installation part. I would like to see the appliance itself remove the entire switch that goes behind it and figure out how to do all the cluster interconnects within the box itself."
"It is difficult to get acclimated to all the new features quickly. The onboard process could be improved to bring clients up to speed faster."
"HCI has not enabled us to consolidate workloads or break down silos and has not increased application performance. It has also not resulted in more efficient use of compute resources."
"The deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."
"The problem is that it needs to be much more stable, for example, when I want to do the upgrade to 1.7 that just released, I also need to issue a ticket to the support guy in India and he asked me to deploy another mlock. There are a lot of manual steps compared with other products."
"There's a limitation with a block in the file. That's where I see that it's not very efficient for upgrades and for management."
"I'm not a fan of how they don't log you out properly from some of their web tools for management."
"I would like to see the implementation process improved."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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