StarWind HyperConverged Appliance and HPE Hyper Converged compete in the hyper-converged infrastructure market. Based on user feedback, StarWind seems to have the upper hand in cost-effectiveness and support, while HPE is noted for robust data protection and VMware integration but is priced higher.
Features: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers extensive customization, consolidated storage, and affordability, which makes it practical for small IT teams. Its high availability and proactive support are significant highlights. In contrast, HPE Hyper Converged provides strong data protection, scalability, and smooth integration with VMware environments, despite lacking some storage optimization features from SimpliVity.
Room for Improvement: StarWind users wish for more advanced monitoring tools, better documentation, and a more user-friendly GUI with additional administrative functions. They also seek broader hardware flexibility and integration capabilities. HPE Hyper Converged could enhance storage efficiency, ease of scalability, and integration with alternative hypervisors. Users find the pricing and upgrade complexity to be a concern, along with the need for improved data protection features.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StarWind’s deployment is quick and straightforward, with many customers noting its minimal setup requirements. It is praised for 24/7 efficient support, although some mention language barriers. HPE Hyper Converged is also simple to deploy, especially on remote sites, offering time-saving packaged setups. Reliable support is provided but is seen as less proactive compared to StarWind.
Pricing and ROI: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is viewed as highly cost-effective, with transparent pricing providing significant savings and high ROI due to reduced complexity and increased system uptime. On the other hand, HPE Hyper Converged is often considered more expensive due to licensing and scaling costs, but it offers flexible payment models and competitive pricing within its market range. However, some users feel the overall value for the price is limited.
HPE Hyper Converged solutions combine intuitive software with the reliability of a world class platform to deliver cloud-like simplicity to your business.
Now, IT can become an internal service provider to end-users by quickly delivering the resources they need for application development and consumption. With HPE Hyper Converged systems companies can operate with cloud efficiency to simplify IT operations with one comprehensive control panel to deploy, monitor, analyze and update – with a single generalist; consume with cloud flexibility to deliver a cloud-like experience, with multi-tenant workspaces that eliminate stranded resources and flexes on demand; and deploy at cloud speed to empower developers and lines-of-business with a self-service portal that can instantly compose and recompose VMs in minutes. Built-in enterprise grade features, such as performance and resiliency enable HPE Hyper Converged systems to easily handle a wide variety of virtualized workloads, including general purpose virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and cloud.
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.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance consists of StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN “Ready Nodes”, targeting those, who are building their virtualization infrastructure from scratch. In case there is an existing set of servers, we offer a “software only version”, which is essentially our years proven StarWind Virtual SAN. Basically, it’s the fuel powering StarWind HCA.
We monitor all HCI reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
