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.
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The price was right."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of its scalability: being able to grow it without having to make sure you get the right disks and the right nodes. The solution is also easy to manage. It's all right there in the vSphere Client. You're not going through multiple things. You don't have to know, once you've created the vSAN node. You add storage, it sees it, and you create your data storage from there. Everything is right there for you."
"VMware has been around for a long time are are doing a decent job at catching up with the latest technologies i.e. bringing in kubernetes and containerization. Overall, this is a great tool for virtualization."
"VMware vSAN is a global solution, so we can manage all the storage solutions in one place. It's embedded in VCI solutions."
"vSAN is easy for deploying and maintenance, so some customers can do service themselves."
"It allows us to put our infrastructure in remote locations and still get the same performance we get from our onsite SAN solutions."
"It is easy to work with, easy to handle, and easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the fast performance."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"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."
"The solution is not very stable."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"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."
"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."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"Virtual machines disk size cannot cap more than a single node. For a VDI user, it may not save enough to hold a file server or exchange server on a single node storage space."
"There is a lot that VMware could improve from a marketing perspective. The cloud is still new for many people, so extending storage should be effortless. It shouldn't be so complicated to extend the storage so workloads can access it no matter where they go."
"The solution must provide better customization."
"Improvements are also needed as per the customer's requirements."
"Only the stretched cluster requires a minor improvement."
"vSAN does not have online dedup. When opening the inline dedupe, the performance will be lower than off inline."
"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
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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