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."StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"The solution has many good features."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor HCI is the built-in recovery functionality. The migration is simple to do from other solutions, such as VMware."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"It was not expensive at all."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"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."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"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."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"The cost must be improved."
"Lacks network support."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"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."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th 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, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), 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 HPE Hyper Converged vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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