We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Sangfor HCI 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."In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The interface is very good. Before we used this solution, we had separate storage and switches, but with the hyper convert, it's all in one."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, it is a great platform."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"Acropolis' main advantages are high performance and availability."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"Sangfor HCI's best features are the ability to scale to a bigger size and the roadmap, whereby if they need to replicate their production to disaster recovery, they can do so on the same platform."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"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 initial setup isn't hard."
"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."
"It was not expensive at all."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"I would like to see Acropolis add the ability to migrate VMs between storage containers. I don't know if they've added this in the latest versions, but I haven't seen it yet. It's mainly about AHV. When we use VMware, we can move between storage containers. In VMware, it's just like regular storage, and we can move it."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by adding some NAS features, similar to the ones that are available in the NetApp solution."
"I believe that improvements could be made in regards to the DR in addition to deduplication and integration with others platforms. They also do not offer opportunities for network virtualization so it would be nice to see that in the future."
"Setup can be a little difficult"
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"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."
"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 interface could be a little bit better."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"The migration process could be easier."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in HCI with 74 reviews while Sangfor HCI is ranked 9th in HCI with 11 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Sangfor HCI is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "Serious reliability and stability across the entire system makes for ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI writes "Low cost, great GUI, and helpful support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Proxmox VE, whereas Sangfor HCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Sangfor HCI report.
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