We performed a comparison between HPE Serviceguard and Windows Server Failover Clustering based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, IBM, Veritas and others in High Availability Clustering."HPE Serviceguard is stable, it has high availability for production."
"The solution's scalability is excellent."
"Some of the advantages, are it can give you the ability to choose."
"The solution switches over to another server in case the server goes down."
"The most valuable features of Windows Server Failover Clustering are the ISS, failover cluster, and DC."
"The reliability is pretty good."
"The product is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily create clusters supporting geo-redundancy."
"They must keep the product up and running for a long time as it is currently static."
"Many customers want virtualization or high availability but not on HPE Serviceguard with the appliance."
"The standard, non-enterprise technical support could be improved."
"They could drop the price or improve the cost of the hyper-converged component of it all. Right now, licensing is expensive and complex."
"The stability is good, except for when something crashes or shuts down unexpectedly, then it can be a bit difficult to reestablish the service in a stable state."
"The tool's pricing is high."
"The product should be less dependent on network configuration."
"There are times when we do the system security updates and have to restart the server which is difficult because we need to wait until the end of the day or when working hours are finished. There are service updates that have a requirement to restart the system and it is not convenient."
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HPE Serviceguard is ranked 5th in High Availability Clustering with 2 reviews while Windows Server Failover Clustering is ranked 1st in High Availability Clustering with 8 reviews. HPE Serviceguard is rated 0.0, while Windows Server Failover Clustering is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Serviceguard writes " The solution's most valuable feature is the ability to create a Mount Point Package ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Server Failover Clustering writes "A highly stable and scalable solution that is affordable and easy to deploy". HPE Serviceguard is most compared with Veritas InfoScale Availability, DRBD and IBM PowerHA System Mirror, whereas Windows Server Failover Clustering is most compared with IBM PowerHA System Mirror, Veritas InfoScale Availability and DRBD.
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