We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"The solution has many good features."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"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."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The solution is not very stable."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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