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 vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"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."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"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."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"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."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"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."
"The migration process could be easier."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"The cost must be improved."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
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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 StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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