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."The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"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."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"Great flexibility and scalability."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the solution's ease of upgrading."
"The most valuable feature is the integration of all parts in Prism Element, the browser-based management tool."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable feature is the flexibility to move the VMs easily, keeping everything together."
"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 is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"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."
"You can get almost all the features of the tool at a low cost. The tool also has built-in backup mechanisms. It also has a physical firewall for internet management which other competitors lack."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"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."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"They require more media visibility."
"This is a great product."
"Storage utilization and optimization should be better."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"As far as what could be improved, they have some built-in backup functions already, but any built-in isolation features like vision security features and free LAN features become a security concern."
"In terms of what I would like to see improved, I would say the life cycle management. I don't know if it is because they changed to an LCM from the previous way of upgrading the hardware or software but sometimes it feels that it needs a wizard that says, "Check this, check this," telling you your options. The only thing that's a bit frustrating for me is the life cycle management interface. That's the only thing on the entire system that frustrates me."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"The migration process could be easier."
"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."
"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."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"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 solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 1st in HCI with 80 reviews while Sangfor HCI is ranked 9th in HCI with 16 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 "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". 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 VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas Sangfor HCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, HPE SimpliVity and Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Sangfor HCI report.
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