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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converg...
Ranking in Cloud Management
25th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
HCI (12th)
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth
Ranking in Cloud Management
28th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is 1.4%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 1.8%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure1.4%
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth1.8%
Other96.8%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

KashifAli - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Head, Director of Sales and Operations at Core ISP Router
User-friendly GUI, capable technical support team but complicated license mechanism
Sangfor HCI's license mechanism is too complicated. The license agreement is a distributed license. Within the HCI platform, Sangfor HCI has multiple licenses in terms of services. Sangfor HCI has a separate license for the security services, a separate license for the Doctor services, and application services. They have multiple SKUs in separate forms. As per local market requirements, I think they need to couple up these or bundle up the license model.
Cláudio Braga - PeerSpot reviewer
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
Improves cloud cost control and accountability but could explore further enhancements
The most valuable features of this solution include the drive for accountability because we can allocate cloud costs back to specific business units or teams through showback and chargeback. Additionally, reduced waste is achieved because we can identify unused or underutilized resources and receive recommendations for resizing instances. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers. All of this in just one dashboard is very helpful to improve agility and resolve issues, especially for the workloads. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth helps manage compliance risks by preventing threats, stopping attacks, detecting threats, and securing workloads or endpoints where customers will be using the endpoints. The positive impact on my organization is substantial because we can reduce waste, optimize expenses, drive accountability, and secure the budget from unnecessary cloud costs.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It was not expensive at all."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"It's a great solution for companies in Pakistan."
"Sangfor HCI has a strong GUI interface in terms of graphical representation for management purposes."
"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."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."
"The solution is good for cloud cost management."
"It's one of our core tools within our Zones Cloud Platforms tool bag, when we're looking at how we help customers optimize their cloud spend across their Azure and AWS environments today."
"We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features."
"Overall, it's one of the best products because it's easy to use and has a great dashboard."
"Compared to AWS, the historic data on CloudHealth is a lot more helpful."
"The pricing is rather competitive right now."
"We have some experience with RackWare and Red Hat, and right now I believe this solution to be number one in the market."
 

Cons

"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."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"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."
"We have faced multiple types of challenges with the integration."
"Overall, I think that this is an average product. I am not satisfied with it and do not recommend that others use it."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"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 Perspectives feature could be better. I would like to have more automation and flexibility to put in data and react to a certain event."
"The Perspectives feature could be better."
"When you start to virtualize things it gets very expensive."
"The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization."
"They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size."
"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."
"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."
"Apptio Cloudability has better granular visibility of data that is missing in CloudHealth."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is very cheap."
"The solution is affordable."
"I would say its pricing is between cheap and reasonable and would rate it as three out of five."
"Considering the capabilities provided, the product is expensive."
"The solution has a good initial cost but a high renewal cost."
"It is in the middle range as compared to other hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. There is a three-year warranty on the hardware. The license also includes other features. Sangfor has included Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and a built-in firewall with the license. Other top brands, such as VxRail and VMware, require a separate license for such features."
"Sangfor needs to be more aggressive because this is a new market or territory for Sangfor. Nepal is a very price-sensitive market, so Sangfor needs to be a little more aggressive with its pricing. I would rate them 3.75 out of five in terms of the price."
"The price of Sangfor is cheaper than other competing products."
"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."
"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."
"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."
"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."
"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sangfor HCI?
I rate the pricing of Sangfor HCI at a five, as it is thirty to thirty-five percent more efficient than other solutions in terms of total cost of ownership.
What needs improvement with Sangfor HCI?
I would like Sangfor to have a presence on some public cloud offerings, such as Azure or AWS, to build disaster recovery sites. This functionality is currently missing in the Pakistani market.
What is your primary use case for Sangfor HCI?
The primary use case for Sangfor HCI involves running all workloads that were not for SAP on conventional servers using Hyper-V. We migrated all of these instances from Hyper-V to Sangfor HCI. We a...
What needs improvement with CloudHealth?
I do not see any flaws in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. Everything is fine for me. The performance is acceptable, and the layout is acceptable. It is very user-friendly, and there is nothing that needs...
What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?
This product was used for financial management in my company because I was working for a FinTech. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's use case is related to financial control and resource governance across ...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudHealth?
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's analytics in understanding cloud usage trends and expense forecasts is normally more for marketing staff and analyzing production servers in my case, so I am not very exp...
 

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