HPE Hyper Converged Reviews

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.

Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes.

I've been working with this solution for more than five years.

The stability is ten out of ten.

The scalability of HPE Hyper Converged is limited, and I'd rate it at five out of ten.

The solution's technical support is good, and I'd give them an eight out of ten.

Positive

The initial setup is okay, and I'd give it a seven out of ten. We have it deployed on-premises, and I recommend it because cloud deployment can be expensive.

The deployment takes an hour to a couple of hours at maximum.

I would rate the price at seven out of ten. There are no additional licensing fees, but it would be cheaper to go with a dHCI solution.

This solution is for small- or medium-scale organizations and not for large scale companies. However, I would strongly recommend not going with HPE Hyper Converged because of the availability of a dHCI solution, which is the new technology.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate HPE Hyper Converged at eight. If scalability is not an issue for an organization, then this solution will meet their requirements.

The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities.

The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced.

I have been using HPE Hyper Converged for two or three years.

HPE Hyper Converged is a very stable solution.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine or ten out of ten.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

The solution's deployment takes more than three days with the testing and everything in place.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten.

We have three nodes with software-defined storage virtualization based on KVM. We also use oVirt as an open-source solution. HPE Hyper Converged has simplified our data center operations.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We use HPE Hyper Converged for IT infrastructure. 

The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights. 

I have been using the solution for five years. 

HPE Hyper Converged is stable. 

The solution is scalable. We have more than 1,200 users for the product. 

We get very good technical support for HPE Hyper Converged. 

The tool's installation takes three days to complete. We need two resources to handle the tool's deployment. 

We deployed the solution in-house. 

HPE Hyper Converged is an affordable solution. 

I rate the product an eight out of ten. 

One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors.

Another key feature would be that the upgrade process is much easier, especially when adding the third and fourth nodes. The availability, user interface, and configuration are also straightforward.

The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency.

I have been working with this solution since HPE started selling Hyper Converged products around 2014. So, it has been nine years now.

Stability is very good. I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

It is a highly scalable solution. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten.

The support is very good. Every time we do an installation, HPE directly handles the support. However, we have to pay separately for the support.

Positive

The initial setup is very easy. Not much of a complex process. 

I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one being difficult and ten being easy. It's quite straightforward.

Considering the features it offers, I'd say it's not very cost-effective, but it provides real value for the money.

I would recommend it because of the global support they provide, the ease of installation, and the availability of after-sales support. 

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. More customization and improved backup efficiency compared to traditional systems. These features would make it a ten and are what I recommend to others using HPE.

Our primary use case is for infrastructure and VDI environment. I'm an infrastructure architect.

I like the backup resolution updates.

I think the solution could be more secure and more economical.

I've been using this solution for four years. 

The solution is stable. 

The customer support for HPE is good, I'm happy with it. 

I deployed the solution and it was straightforward. Deployment time depends on the customer's network. We work with integrators to implement in other organizations and there can be anywhere between 30 and 12,000 users. The solution requires one maintenance person. 

I rate this solution 10 out of 10. 

With the primary data center of clients where we do virtualization, Hyper Convergence basically gives them a little advantage over the traditional virtualization. The solution is used on-premise.

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. It's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking about the SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution. With the competition, if two hard drives fail, they're out of the picture. Whereas with HPE Hyper Converged, in each node, even if three hard drives go down, they're better. There's continuity.

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. I'm specifically talking about certain propositions in the dHCI that only support VMware as the Hypervisor. They could have all different layers of Hypervisors, like the KVM or X, Y, Z.

Currently dHci Nimble offers only VMware as native hypervisor and will be great if it can support others  like Red Hat, KVM etc too. Although this is not a limitation as one can install Red Hat & other operating systems as a Virtual machine on top of VMware hypervisor. 

I have been using HPE Hyper Converged for more than five years now.

The solution is very stable. I haven't seen any failures with the deployments we have in the Hyper Convergence environment.

If I talk about HPE Enterprise SimpliVity, the scalability is there because you can add on nodes. If you're talking about the Converged level, there could be a lot of improvements because if I do an upgrade on one node, I need to do that similarly on the second node, which increases costs.

The support layer from HPE is pretty good. If you are purchasing that from HPE Enterprise at the time of purchasing the equipment, the support is pretty smooth.

Positive

Initial setup is pretty easy. It's not that complicated.

If I'm comparing the solution with Dell, HPE Hyper Converged is definitely cheaper in my experience.

I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.

dSCI is Disaggregated Hyper Convergence. For the existing investment that a customer has done on a HPE platform, for example, they don't need to throw away that investment because they can re-utilize them in the dHCI configuration. Secondly, it's more scalable at the component level. That means I can upgrade when required for storage or computing needs separately. I don't need to do the same, like what they used to do in SimpliVity.

Until recently, I was selling HPE SimpliVity. After dHCI has come in the picture with Nimble, we started promoting that because they have better features. When it comes to Hyper Convergence only, the features in SimpliVity and dHCI are different.

These days, most of our customers prefer Hyper Converged because of its performance and because it's an all-in-one solution. It's easier to manage. Our current client has 200 users.

Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure.

We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME. 

We have been using Hyper Converged for nearly four years.

Hyper Converged is highly stable because it's installed on our VMware platform. It's well designed and integrated with our Hypervisor software. 

Hyper Converged is scalable but there are some complications.  If we want to scale, we have to scale to the full capacity. We cannot go for granular upgrades. You can mention that we can upgrade, but for scalability, we need to add more notes. There is no granular options to upgrade the system.

I rate HPE Hyper Converged eight out of 10. I rate Hyper Converged eight because there are still some competing solutions doing better than HPE on Gartner's Magic Quadrant. 

My primary use case is as an all-in-one solution for SMB.

The features I've found most valuable are manageability, integrated backup solution SimpliVity, and deep integration.

An area for improvement would be the ease of installation and setup.

I've been working with this solution for a number of years.

I have not heard of any concerns or issues with stability.

Technical support is fairly good.

Installation takes anywhere from a few days to weeks.

I would rate this solution eight out of ten.