We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and VMware vSAN 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."It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"It is extremely stable."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"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."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"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."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"The implementation is simple, it was very straightforward. It took us approximately three weeks because it was installed in four locations."
"Very good VCG notification feature."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"The most valuable features are productivity and data storage."
"The most valuable feature for our customers is vMotion. It allows them to shut down virtual machines and migrate them to others servers."
"Its ease of use is most valuable. It is easy to configure, and there is a unified interface, which makes things slightly easier."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"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."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"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."
"VMware vSAN needs to improve its features because other solutions have more advanced features."
"It would be ideal if clients didn't need to monitor the solution on a daily basis."
"Lacks sufficient storage terabytes."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having better integration with other vendors and the storage is limited, I prefer it to the traditional storage."
"If the support could be provided more quickly, it would be very helpful."
"VMware vSAN could improve by adding NAS and object storage."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"Because of virtual storage, the system reaches reserve storage for its functions. It also consumes a certain amount of storage, which then results in the creation of a fault tolerance for the system. All of this adds to a lot of capacity being consumed in terms of storage for each drive for vSan. I find this to be one drawback of using vSan."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 6 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 78 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble Storage. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. VMware vSAN report.
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