We performed a comparison between Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure 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."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The product is very reliable. We haven't had any major issues with the product since we bought it."
"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 most valuable feature of Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is the relocating of resources."
"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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"We find it easy to deliver this solution."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is stable."
"The solution fits well with my requirements."
"I have used VMware for 15 years and I never had any problems with stability."
"The solutions best feature is that it is easy to use."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is easy to deploy. It is easy to create and delete virtual servers. It is easy to create the load balancing and the clustering."
"VMware vSAN's most valuable features are the capability to consolidate standalone physical infrastructure into virtualization and the ease of management."
"The product’s ecosystem is better than Nutanix’s."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"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."
"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."
"Technical support needs improvement. There's a lot of language barriers."
"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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"vSAN itself is a great storage platform, but one of the issues with it is that you have to be fully locked into the VMware package to use it. We're going to be deploying 72 Kubernetes nodes, and we're not going to buy VMware licenses for 72 of them, just so they can access vSAN. That's what we're using the Pure for. Opening it up so you could have vSAN as a data store, use it as a data lake, hit it with an NFS, S3 from outside the VMware ecosystem, would be great."
"The technical support, it's not satisfactory. Whenever we raise a ticket it takes a lot of time to have an engineer get involved sometimes, or we receive a less experienced engineer. We then have to repeat the situation to the next engineer which all takes time."
"If the support could be provided more quickly, it would be very helpful."
"The pricing could be better when it comes to renewing the licenses."
"The solution could maybe improve failure protection."
"The vSan product uses a software system called Vsphere to monitor the system. It is sometimes difficult to manage the PCs within the systems."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"While I like the replication and compression features, there is a problem with them running too slowly."
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Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is ranked 16th in HCI with 5 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is rated 7.8, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is most compared with Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure vs. VMware vSAN report.
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