We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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."It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"The solution has many good features."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"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."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"I would like to see a more intuitive, user-friendly UI."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"The solution is not very stable."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"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."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"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."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"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."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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