We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."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."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"By configuring networks, we are saving power."
"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."
"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"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 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."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"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."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"The price could be better. I think it's more expensive than VxRail. In the next release, I would like to see a better level of protection and availability with six clients."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"Currently, when we need to do capacity planning, we have to rely on Sangfor's support team for assistance. However, if there were dedicated tools available, we could handle it ourselves and increase efficiency."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"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."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"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."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN.
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