We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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."Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"For us, fault tolerance is the most important feature of DataCore."
"The most useful feature of SANsymphony is that it's able to manage any brand of block storage."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"The graphical interface is not always very stable."
"For customers or technicians that don't speak and understand English, it could be great to have other languages support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"There is no way of quickly matching the exact size of a vDisk to a disk pool."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"As far as I know, no hyper-convergence solution includes security, so you have to buy security from another brand. For example, you buy SimpliVity or Nutanix. They don't really have a security solution inside the product. It would be good if there is a security solution inside this solution so that it is not only for the virtualization of CPU, RAM, disk, and network but also for security."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"Lacks network support."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"The cost must be improved."
"The migration process could be easier."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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