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 reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"They offer top-tier support."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"This product has very good performance when it comes to virtualization storage and works well with solutions such as SAP HANA, Exadata, Hadoop, and Big Data Analytics."
"it's easy to scale, it's easy to predict IOP needs, and you can design for low latency using all-flash... Also, for setting up new clusters for VDI quickly, it's nice. You don't have to wait on an order for a storage vendor to ship you a system and help you configure it, you do it all yourself. And the sizing guides are pretty straightforward."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple."
"Being hyperconverged, it simplifies what equipment we have to buy."
"I like the orchestration feature."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"They require more media visibility."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"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."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"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."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"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."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"This product is very expensive."
"I would like a better Hardware Certification List (HCL). The HCL should a little easier to deal with."
"Hackers are able to manage to leak information or data from the product using some corrupt files, making it an area of major concern where improvements are required."
"Its installation should be easier, and its price should be cheaper. It would be good for the product if they can include the data locality feature."
"We want see a better monitoring tool in vSAN. Monitoring is not that great as of now because it shows us false alarms in the Health status. We would like that to be improved."
"I would like to see some of the more traditional SAN functions that are out the now. I can list them: being able to Snapshot on the back-end, better de-dupe, and better compression. Those are the major ones."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Alletra dHCI and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. VMware vSAN report.
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