Junior Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Reseller
A stable and scalable solution with regular updates and competitive pricing
Pros and Cons
  • "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 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."

What is our primary use case?

A client is using it to build a high availability system to output many virtual machines, save power, and scale it up without the need to subscribe to a cloud provider like Amazon. It is their own HCI.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

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.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for one year.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Our clients did not have any problem with it. It has minimal downtime.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is very scalable. To scale it more, you just need to add nodes to the management. That's it. We have around 60 users in our company.

How are customer service and support?

It is good. I had interacted with them for the POC, and we decided to purchase it very quickly. They were in Hong Kong or Malaysia.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is pretty easy. This is my first job in the IT industry, and I could easily understand how to deploy it. It took just a few hours.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing of Sangfor is very competitive.

What other advice do I have?

The biggest lesson that I have learned by using this product is to not judge a product by its price. Sangfor HCI is competitive in terms of price, and it has good features and functionality. I would recommend this solution to others. I am pretty satisfied with Sangfor products, and I want other people to also experience Sangfor.

I would rate Sangfor HCI a nine out of ten. It has great features, but there is always room for improvement. I am looking forward to more features in the future.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: reseller
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Presales Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Reseller
User-friendly, easy to set up, and the auto-scaling is helpful
Pros and Cons
  • "The interface is very user-friendly."
  • "The error reporting needs to be improved."

What is our primary use case?

We are a reseller and Sangfor HCI is one of the products that we have experience with.

Our primary use case is for clustering our SaaS.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is auto-scaling.

The interface is very user-friendly.

What needs improvement?

The error reporting needs to be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Sangfor HCI for one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have had no issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability has not been a problem with this product.

How are customer service and technical support?

They have good technical support.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is not complex. It is user-friendly and easy to deploy.

Installing the hypervisor takes less than half an hour.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I am pretty satisfied with this product and I recommend it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Chief Information Officer - Government at Govt of City of Makassar
Real User
The user interface is good, but it doesn't support SAS and it consumes a lot of power
Pros and Cons
  • "I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
  • "Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."

What is our primary use case?

We are primarily using this product to store our applications. We are using to host data for us to perform analytics on.

What is most valuable?

The interface is typical for this type of product. I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten.

What needs improvement?

Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like.

I would like to see support for Kubernetes and Docker.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been dealing with Sangfor for less than eight months.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I think that there are issues with scalability because Sangfor consumes a high amount of power. In order to scale using Sangfor, I would also have to scale up the amount of power in my data center.

How are customer service and technical support?

I am currently not getting enough technical support because of the COVID-19 pandemic. I am looking for direct support, but I don't have it.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price of Sangfor is cheaper than other competing products.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I am currently looking to replace this solution with something from perhaps Nutanix or Dell. I am still looking for the best solution to use in our next project.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I think that this is an average product. I am not satisfied with it and do not recommend that others use it.

I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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