We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged 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."The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"It is extremely stable."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"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."
"The solution has many good features."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten... Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"You can get almost all the features of the tool at a low cost. The tool also has built-in backup mechanisms. It also has a physical firewall for internet management which other competitors lack."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"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."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"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 think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"One question that has come up frequently in the last week is whether or not the renewal cost for Sangfor's HCI solution is too high."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"It should have object storage. It already has network virtualization and micro-segmentation, but it is missing object storage. It does not have object storage. vSAN also does not have object storage, but Nutanix has object storage, and it is natively integrated into its HCI. So, if you pay for the object storage license, you have that module pre-built."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"The cost must be improved."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. 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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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