We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and StarWind Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Nutanix, VMware, Dell Technologies and others in HCI."Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"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."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"Having instant failover redundancy helps me sleep easier at night."
"They call us when monitoring shows a possible issue and are very flexible in working with our schedule to troubleshoot when it is convenient for us."
"The integration is excellent."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"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."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"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."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"This solution is very costly."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"The dashboard features are not in the free version."
"They offered onsite installation, but we chose to do it ourselves. That took longer and was more work for us but saved us a ton of money in the end."
"StarWind no longer sells HDDs for primary storage."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 6 reviews while StarWind Storage Appliance is ranked 9th in NAS with 3 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 9.2, while StarWind Storage Appliance is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes "High performance that gives an advantage over traditional virtualization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Storage Appliance writes "Great performance with excellent technical support and good scalability". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas StarWind Storage Appliance is most compared with FreeNAS, StoneFly VSO NAS, VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN.
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