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PROS

HPE Hyper Converged offers rapid deployment, integrated backup, and scalability.
It improves operational efficiency with fast performance and is easy to upgrade.
With all-flash storage, it maximizes performance by significantly increasing IOPS.
Features like deduplication and efficient backup capabilities make HPE Hyper Converged more effective compared to others.
Provides comprehensive data security, combining storage, computing, and networking into a fully integrated system.

CONS

Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive when upgrading memory across nodes.
Local technical support and price improvements are necessary.
Upgrade challenges exist because incremental upgrades are not available, requiring a full upgrade.
Integration with other solutions could be better.
HPE Hyper Converged is very costly.
 

HPE Hyper Converged Pros review quotes

it_user283578 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 13, 2017
The most valuable feature was its time to delivery.
it_user759894 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 19, 2018
Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted.
Yudish Jatoo - PeerSpot reviewer
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 7, 2023
It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE.
it_user485943 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
it_user683277 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 13, 2017
We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform.
KK
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.
it_user759894 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
AP
Jul 9, 2019
The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity.
it_user568050 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 1, 2017
The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have.
 

HPE Hyper Converged Cons review quotes

it_user283578 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
it_user759894 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 19, 2018
The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved.
Yudish Jatoo - PeerSpot reviewer
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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it_user567912 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Ajit Pratap Kundan - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
it_user683277 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
KK
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.
it_user759894 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 16, 2017
Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression.
AP
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.
it_user568050 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 1, 2017
I would like to see more deduplication.