We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and Springpath [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"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 product enables me to use any software or database."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"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."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"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."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. 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 Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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