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HPE Hyper Converged pros and cons

Vendor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

4.1 out of 5

38 reviews
97% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

HPE Hyper Converged offers excellent scalability and unmatched performance with all-flash storage and high IOPS, ensuring efficient resource management. It features fast data backup and recovery with strong resiliency. However, reliance on outdated Gen9 DL380 and lack of spanned vCenter support are limitations. Users request improved data protection, cost reductions, support for open-source virtualization, and better technical services to enhance HPE Hyper Converged's appeal to tech buyers.

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PROS

HPE Hyper Converged offers exceptional scalability, allowing seamless expansion of storage and enabling users to efficiently manage IT resources while saving rack space and power.

It delivers unmatched performance and reliability with its all-flash storage and high IOPS, surpassing the competition even with multiple drive failures.

HPE Hyper Converged provides robust data protection and resiliency, ensuring data security end-to-end, with efficient backup systems that are faster and more effective compared to other vendors.

The hyper-converged infrastructure simplifies management and administration, suitable for small to medium-sized companies, offering cost savings and eliminating the need for a dedicated IT department.

HPE Hyper Converged excels in fast deployment, easy upgrades, and lifecycle management, making it an excellent choice for those seeking flexibility, ease of use, and a dependable support system.

CONS

Pricing is high, and cost reduction is necessary for greater affordability.

Scalability is limited and expensive, requiring memory upgrades across all nodes.

Lack of support for multiple hypervisors, leading to limitations with only VMware compatibility.

Technical support services and documentation require improvement for better user experience.

The solution lacks strong data protection, deduplication, compression, and better storage efficiency.

HPE Hyper Converged Pros review quotes

Owner and CEO at Bitcon

May 18, 2017

For HPE Hyper Converged 380, the added value is not having to buy multiple elements – servers, hard disks, memories, CPU, cables, and software – because you have to unpack it, install it, and update the firmware.

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PreSales Specialist at ITF Svensk IT Funktion AB

Jan 1, 2017

The customers we have think it's a valuable product because of its ease of management, and its ability to work over different locations, and so on.

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IT Manager at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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Director of IT Systems at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 13, 2017

The most valuable feature was its time to delivery.

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Consultant at Hexagon Safety and Infrastructure

Jun 13, 2017

We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform.

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Team Leader Infrastructure Team at Entel

Jun 13, 2017

The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client.

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Development and IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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Development and IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 19, 2018

Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted.

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IT Specialist at Bitcon

Jul 16, 2019

The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection.

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System Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 9, 2019

If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery.

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HPE Hyper Converged Cons review quotes

Owner and CEO at Bitcon

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.

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PreSales Specialist at ITF Svensk IT Funktion AB

Jan 1, 2017

I would like to see price points when there are larger solutions.

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IT Manager at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Jan 1, 2017

I would like to see more deduplication.

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Director of IT Systems at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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Consultant at Hexagon Safety and Infrastructure

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.

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Team Leader Infrastructure Team at Entel

Jun 13, 2017

I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI.

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Development and IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 16, 2017

Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression.

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Development and IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 19, 2018

The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved.

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IT Specialist at Bitcon

Jul 16, 2019

A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice.

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System Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 9, 2019

One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host.

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