We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"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."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"They require more media visibility."
"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."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"The documentation could be better."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"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."
"This solution is very costly."
"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."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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