"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"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."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"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."
"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."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"VMware comes with different stacks like VMware Cloud Foundation, which is integrated with different VMware modules. There's interoperability between VMware products."
"This product has very good performance when it comes to virtualization storage and works well with solutions such as SAP HANA, Exadata, Hadoop, and Big Data Analytics."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is the ease of management. VMware vSAN it's a part of VMware ESXi and when you do patching for VMware ESXi, VMware vSAN receives the patches too."
"Provides good performance as well as integration with deployment tools."
"Technical support is good."
"I like the tolerance of VMware vSAN."
"The scalability of the solution is most valuable."
"It's completely hyper-converged, so it's very convenient."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"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."
"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 does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"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."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"This is quite an expensive solution."
"Its integration with a hybrid cloud can be improved. Its scalability can also be improved so that it can be integrated with more than 32 nodes. The maximum number of nodes is okay, but our use cases could probably do with more nodes, probably up to 64. In terms of new features, it should probably have the basic support for high-speed networking spaces."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
"One area that could be improved is the management feature."
"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."
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Sangfor HCI is ranked 10th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 9 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 87 reviews. Sangfor HCI is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI writes "Has good 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 is most compared with Nutanix Acropolis AOS, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Sangfor HCI vs. VMware vSAN report.
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