We performed a comparison between Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance 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."The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"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."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is the relocating of resources."
"The pricing of the solution is excellent. It's one of the main reasons a customer chooses Huawei. It's much, much better than VMware."
"The product is very reliable. We haven't had any major issues with the product since we bought it."
"The best thing about the solution is that it combines network, storage, and compute functions in one place. Unlike the traditional three-tier setup, you don't need to buy separate devices for each part. This makes it much easier to control and manage everything in one go without switching between different places for different tasks."
"The solution is stable and everything is taken care of through the Huawei support center. They ensure everything is running smoothly. It's been very good."
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"Servers came pre-configured for our environment and as soon as they were in the rack, Starwind got them up and running."
"Their service is top-notch and if a node goes down they immediately are following up with us to make sure that everything is working smoothly."
"Overall, the solution has improved our system's performance. I was concerned about the physical-to-virtual conversion of our database server. It's actually much faster now, as a virtualized host on this Hyper-V cluster."
"The hosts came preconfigured, and it was plug-and-play."
"I do like that I can manage StarWind with a console running on my local desktop."
"We run probably 16 virtual machines, and all of them are now highly available, and highly redundant."
"Their support team is extremely helpful, and they are pretty friendly and knowledgeable."
"The biggest thing we were looking for was redundancy, with both the compute and the storage, so that way we could lose a full node and still keep everything up and running, and not have to worry about it... StarWind was able to provide a solution for what we wanted, - to provide for redundancy."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"Technical support needs improvement. There's a lot of language barriers."
"The solution currently does not have cloud integration."
"Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure could improve the security of the solution. However, we are comfortable using it. Additionally, there could be more information provided for the solution and the interface could be more user-friendly."
"I want the product to be used more efficiently and for our system to connect easily with cloud services like AWS, Oracle, and IBM. We can also improve by adding advanced features like snapshots, replication, and encryption, allowing for more growth. Introducing features such as data duplication, data analytics, and AI-driven insights will improve its deployments."
"t would be helpful if the solution was able to collaborate or integrate with other well-known monitoring tools. Right now, you have to work hard to get it configured. It would be a good selling point for them if they could open up their solution to more integrations."
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"The only issue we have seen is with the StarWind Server Manager. We have had to continually reboot the server in order to use it."
"The management console could use a facelift."
"We were slightly disappointed with the hardware footprint. We were led to believe, and all the pre-sales tech information requirements pointed to the fact, that it was coming on Dell hardware. Then it came on bulk servers."
"The only real flaw that I have seen so far is this hard drive that was accidentally ejected because when it was received and added back into the RAID. There was an error there. It was not added back into the RAID correctly, so I have an outstanding hard disk. Apparently, a guy just knocked it with his hand as he was in my office, so it was just a small eject. He said that he didn't crash into anything. That is the only thing that has reared its head."
"Perhaps the initial configuration and documentation could be a little clearer and simpler to follow."
"It would be nice to have some kind of GUI interface implemented to give you an overall view of the system's health at a glance."
"I had some initial difficulties understanding the solution which could have been solved via additional documentation aimed at newcomers."
"At the moment, the initial configuration is very technical and error-prone. That is the reason Starwind does it for you as a service, which is a great thing. But it would be nice if we could change or rearrange storage assignments ourselves."
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Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is ranked 17th in HCI with 5 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 65 reviews. Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is rated 7.8, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure writes "Combines network, storage, and compute functions in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and HPE SimpliVity, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN. See our Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance report.
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