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HPE Hyper Converged pros and cons

Vendor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

4.1 out of 5

37 reviews
97% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

HPE Hyper Converged offers excellent scalability and unmatched performance with all-flash storage and high IOPS, ensuring efficient resource management. It features fast data backup and recovery with strong resiliency. However, reliance on outdated Gen9 DL380 and lack of spanned vCenter support are limitations. Users request improved data protection, cost reductions, support for open-source virtualization, and better technical services to enhance HPE Hyper Converged's appeal to tech buyers.

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PROS

HPE Hyper Converged offers exceptional scalability, allowing seamless expansion of storage and enabling users to efficiently manage IT resources while saving rack space and power.

It delivers unmatched performance and reliability with its all-flash storage and high IOPS, surpassing the competition even with multiple drive failures.

HPE Hyper Converged provides robust data protection and resiliency, ensuring data security end-to-end, with efficient backup systems that are faster and more effective compared to other vendors.

The hyper-converged infrastructure simplifies management and administration, suitable for small to medium-sized companies, offering cost savings and eliminating the need for a dedicated IT department.

HPE Hyper Converged excels in fast deployment, easy upgrades, and lifecycle management, making it an excellent choice for those seeking flexibility, ease of use, and a dependable support system.

CONS

Pricing is high, and cost reduction is necessary for greater affordability.

Scalability is limited and expensive, requiring memory upgrades across all nodes.

Lack of support for multiple hypervisors, leading to limitations with only VMware compatibility.

Technical support services and documentation require improvement for better user experience.

The solution lacks strong data protection, deduplication, compression, and better storage efficiency.

HPE Hyper Converged Pros review quotes

Director of IT Systems at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 13, 2017

The most valuable feature was its time to delivery.

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Development and IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 19, 2018

Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted.

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Business Development Manager at MC3

Oct 19, 2023

It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution.

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Ajit Pratap Kundan

PreSales Lead- Government & Defense at Accops Systems Pvt Ltd

Nov 7, 2023

It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE.

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AVP Software Development at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 26, 2016

Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble.

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Consultant at Hexagon Safety and Infrastructure

Jun 13, 2017

We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform.

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Krishna RaoKalavala

General Manager at Zenith Business Solutions

Dec 11, 2021

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.

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Development and IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 16, 2017

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.

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System Specialist at Techedge

Jul 9, 2019

The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity.

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System Engineer at BIOS Engineering

Jun 24, 2025

The features of HPE Hyper Converged that are most effective and beneficial are its simplicity as well as its scalability.

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HPE Hyper Converged Cons review quotes

Director of IT Systems at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 13, 2017

We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem.

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Development and IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 19, 2018

The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved.

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Business Development Manager at MC3

Oct 19, 2023

One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open.

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Owner and CEO at Bitcon

May 18, 2017

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.

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Ajit Pratap Kundan

PreSales Lead- Government & Defense at Accops Systems Pvt Ltd

Nov 7, 2023

Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model.

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Consultant at Hexagon Safety and Infrastructure

Jun 13, 2017

The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites.

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Krishna RaoKalavala

General Manager at Zenith Business Solutions

Dec 11, 2021

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.

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Development and IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 16, 2017

Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression.

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System Specialist at Techedge

Jul 9, 2019

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.

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System Engineer at BIOS Engineering

Jun 24, 2025

Currently, the HPE HCI is based on the VMware solution, and many clients are skipping VMware due to its changed licensing method.

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