We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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."StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"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."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"The integration between the storage and the server applications is the most valuable feature of this solution. It cuts down on the necessity to buy a secondary storage system.. It saves money in the long-run."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."
"It is a complete package. For any kind of on-premises hyper-converged solution, we usually have to separate networks, but Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a complete solution. It has its own network and storage. The storage part is the most valuable feature."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"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."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"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."
"I would like a lighter product; something which can be carried by a mere human. The typical size still looks like a stack of data center-sized servers, which is typically fine, but not so good if you want to carry it around."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"We would like to move off the GUI."
"We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution."
"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."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place"
"The additional feature I would like to see included in the next release of this solution is more security. We want to add more data servers to all the hosts all over the world. We have 140 hosts that connect to one data center in Manila."
"It can have more compatibility and new features. I would also like to see better performance. Some of the other HCI solutions already provide the SSD and flash storage and much higher Intel processors. Sangfor HCI can improve on that."
"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’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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 is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Rubrik, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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