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."StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"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."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"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."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"The solution's unified administration is its most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable features are ease of deployment, and ease of management. If you compare it to other software-defined storage products, it's much easier. It's a checkbox. It's lot easier to manage."
"The scalability has been quite good."
"I like that we could choose whatever hardware we wanted, rather than having to use one particular vendor."
"The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability."
"Good performance, reliable and agile."
"The solutions best feature is that it is easy to use."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"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."
"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 solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"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 storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"Troubleshooting tools could be improved."
"I would like more integration with the hardware when it comes to disc types and supporting the newer types of storage."
"It needs to be vanilla. There shouldn't be any custom drivers, any custom anything. It should just be, "Hey, you know what? These drivers are going to work for this version, the next version, and the following version after that." That's the difficulty in this. It takes too much upkeep... The main issue is drivers. Every time we move to a new vSAN version, we're having problems finding the correct drivers for the vendor."
"Some intelligence can be added to the newest version to provide more flexibility between storage tiers."
"More focus has to be put on deduplication and compression with a hybrid architecture."
"One area that could be improved is the management feature."
"Dedupe in non flash drives can be improved."
"Enterprise customers get discounts on the solution's licensing pricing, but it is too expensive for SMB customers."
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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