We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Sangfor has many solutions, and you can easily manage their machine servers with just one management. They're always striving for greatness, and they continuously update their products. For example, they have now built endpoint security within the firewall. They are continuously improving not only the security but also all other products."
"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 most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy."
"This is the go-to tool for anyone looking for standard out-of-the-box capabilities in a fully multitenant public cloud software that they can leverage to offer services to their customers."
"The initial setup was complex. There's a lot of things you have to factor in, like security, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and how to maintain the platform. It's something we still struggle with, but it's getting better."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"Currently, when we need to do capacity planning, we have to rely on Sangfor's support team for assistance. However, if there were dedicated tools available, we could handle it ourselves and increase efficiency."
"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 does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"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."
"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 interface could be a little bit better."
"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."
"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 new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"There didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup. There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"The product could use a billing feature so we can automate billing for clients."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 17th in Cloud Management with 28 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Scale Computing HC3, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, VMware Aria Operations and vCenter Orchestrator. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. vCloud Director report.
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