We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Springpath [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"It was not expensive at all."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"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."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"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."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"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."
"The cost must be improved."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"Lacks network support."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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