We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."It was not expensive at all."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"It is flexible like a hyper-convergence system. You can add nodes, and you can scale to have better performance and stability. I also like the backup feature, the recovery system, and the web interface GUI to handle everything."
"I find the simplicity of Sangfor very valuable. It is easy to configure and user-friendly. The overall user experience as well as the usability of Sangfor is outstanding."
"Sangfor has many solutions, and you can easily manage their machine servers with just one management. They're always striving for greatness, and they continuously update their products. For example, they have now built endpoint security within the firewall. They are continuously improving not only the security but also all other products."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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