We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI and VMware vSAN based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sangfor HCI and VMware vSAN come out about equal in this comparison. Sangfor HCI has an edge when it comes to pricing, but VMware vSAN has an edge when it comes to ease of deployment.
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The price was right."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"Stretched Cluster is one of the big features that we use across multiple data centers."
"vSAN is scalable for us. If any additional capacity needs to be included, we just add to the host and configure the vSAN cluster."
"The most valuable features for us are the ability to scale out the nodes independently, and the flexibility of the nodes. We can put almost any type of server in there with our connectivity and everything works great."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"Storage policies are used to perform operations in the VMs. This feature allows you to create storage policies for VMs to get performance, high availability, I/O policies, etc."
"Technical support has been very good. They respond pretty fast, especially if we have a critical issue. Their responses have been great."
"The most valuable feature is the simplification of storage. We no longer need to deal with Fibre Channel and the external storage arrays."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"The migration process could be easier."
"Lacks network support."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"I am looking for more of a software-defined storage platform that uses different protocols, such as iSCSI, NFS, and CIS, and maybe also has an object as part of that. They should 100% make it more of a storage-based product where it is not linked just to VMware, and it also has NFS and iSCSI built-in at a scalable level. They should turn it more into a dedicated storage-as-a-service platform instead of just being built into the VMware kernel. Their level one and level two support is not at all good, and it should be improved."
"I see room for improvement with vSAN in particularly in the reporting realm. Now, with vSAN 6.7, they're starting to include vRealize Operations components in the vSphere Client, even if you're not a vRealize Operations customer. So, that's really good. It exposes some really low-level reporting. I would like to see more of that. However, you have to be a vRealize Operations customer to obtain that. I would like to see more include of this included in the vSAN licensing."
"The platform’s pricing needs improvement. Additionally, there should be an appliance module included in it."
"The customer service is good but there is a cost for it. It does not come free."
"I'd like to see better integration with the Update Manager, with respect to firmware updates for hardware."
"It could be cheaper."
"There's a lot that can be done to segregate. That may be available now in vSAN 7, I suppose, however, the deduplication and compression can be segregated."
"Hackers are able to manage to leak information or data from the product using some corrupt files, making it an area of major concern where improvements are required."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 10th in HCI with 28 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. VMware vSAN report.
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