We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VxRail 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."StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"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."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"It was not expensive at all."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"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."
"Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks."
"like VxRail because it's fully integrated. The other hyperconverged solutions are also well integrated. They are all highly similar to each other in that regard. But we prefer VxRail for its physical integrations or lifecycle management. It also has vCenter, which integrates the hardware lifecycle management."
"VxRail can be used for application modernization."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"We have seen ROI using this solution. It has simplified the work of the staff that we have which allows us to do more work with the same number of people, without having to incrementally grow the staff. The reliability of the product has been exceptional."
"Initial setup is straightforward, as everything is pre-installed."
"It has a valuable deduplication feature."
"VxRail has improved our organization by providing our admin team with an easy-to-use interface."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"The migration process could be easier."
"Supply chain capabilities are certainly hurting us. We're in the process of placing a large order for more VxRail nodes right now."
"The update for the graphics integration and the media drivers isn't included in the VxRail update."
"We'd like to see more automation capabilities in the future."
"We used an integrator team for the implementation of the solution. The one person who takes care of the maintenance of VxRail, such as upgrading the software. The upgrading takes too long. We have many nodes which takes a long time, they need to improve the speed of the upgrades"
"When we have a vulnerability or we need to upgrade VxRail, it takes a long time. It takes eight hours each time we upgrade."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
"My customers want more storage for university databases."
"The price could be better. The backup mechanism could also be better. Some of our clients prefer to work with backup software from a different vendor. They don't do a built-in backup solution. It would be better if they had guidelines on proper sizing and the whole life cycle from the requirement collection. If there aren't any proper guidelines, how do I go to the customer and evaluate their existing infrastructure? How can you do appropriate sizing to migrate to a hyper-converged environment? I think this is a requirement because most of our clients are migrating to a hyper-converged environment. In the next release, they can improve absolutely anything you can think of to improve the product in general—for example, the clusters and backup software."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 19 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 44 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.4, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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 VxRail writes "It's built on platforms that have been in the industry for more than 15 years, so it's very stable". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. VxRail report.
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