We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI and VMware vSAN based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sangfor HCI and VMware vSAN come out about equal in this comparison. Sangfor HCI has an edge when it comes to pricing, but VMware vSAN has an edge when it comes to ease of deployment.
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"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 management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"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."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"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."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"vSAN is integrated into VMware."
"We didn't only choose vSAN; we chose VMware because of SR-IOV, which is more on the hypervisor level and not on the vSAN storage. It's part of the whole system."
"VMware vSAN is easy to implement in a VMware environment and it is not expensive."
"It is easy to use. It is easy to implement for us, and it is also easy to maintain for the customers. It is not necessary to buy some extra devices and talk with other vendors."
"The performance of VMware vSAN is very good."
"The most valuable thing about vSAN is that all of its features have been working well for us for the past two years. We haven't had an issue with them."
"In my opinion, vSAN is the most natural way to migrate to a fully hyperconverged solution. If a customer needs a more scalable solution with consolidated management, vSAN is excellent."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the total hyperconverged facility."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"This is a great product."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"There is a lot that VMware could improve from a marketing perspective. The cloud is still new for many people, so extending storage should be effortless. It shouldn't be so complicated to extend the storage so workloads can access it no matter where they go."
"Pricing is something of a concern."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
"As no product is 100% perfect, the price for VMware vSAN could still be improved, though it is good when compared to some of its competitors."
"Customers who are using Essentials Plus or even Essentials have to pay for technical support. However, they should not have to pay for support."
"The technical support, it's not satisfactory. Whenever we raise a ticket it takes a lot of time to have an engineer get involved sometimes, or we receive a less experienced engineer. We then have to repeat the situation to the next engineer which all takes time."
"It can be very expensive."
"The upgrading process could be simplified."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 22 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 42 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.4, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "Low cost, great GUI, and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, HPE SimpliVity and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. VMware vSAN report.
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