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."VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"It is a scalable solution."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"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."
"The scalability is great, because it can scale independently."
"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
"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."
"It is easy to administrate the solution, and the company handles its technical support well."
"The NetApp Deployment Engine that comes with it makes the actual deployment and usage very easy. That's our primary focus and it's hyper-converged. That's something that we want to use as well."
"Scalability was another thing I was looking at. The solution, by its very nature, is designed to be expandable and flexible, so you don't have to buy performance you don't need today, but you're also not stuck with something you can't expand."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"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."
"The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment."
"There have been some drive type of issues where we have to apply a new code level. Storage nodes kick certain drives until they act as though they have failed when really they haven't. You just have to reinsert them, then they go on about their happy way. It's sort of a bug."
"I would like for them to fall a little closer to like the VMware release model. The new features and new solutions tend to come from the VMware side. I would like for NetApp to follow along closely with VMware's release schedule."
"Because I like block mode, I'd like to see SAN connectivity. I would like to be able to easily put it into my current environment."
"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."
"The fact that it doesn't have all the data points we need and all the historical data that I would like. I find that a lot of the performance analysis is done through support, where they have something that we don't have. It would be nice just to have all that on-prem."
"There are some legacy applications which still cannot be migrated. That is why we have to keep two environments: legacy and the new one. We would like to see more compatibility to move stuff."
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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