We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity 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 a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"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 iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"The solution is very stable."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"Technical support is perfect. They explain to us the solution in a very clear and simple way. When we call them, they know the right answer and get the right person automatically."
"The access, high availability, and interface are the most valuable and important for us. There is one interface for the whole product, which is very important because you have a single pane to view all the infrastructure of a customer. You can improve your data recovery plan or DRP, or you can make a special emergency plan if a disk has any problem."
"Offsite backup, replication, and duplication of data are important for our plant environment since we are hard on our equipment."
"It was not expensive at all."
"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 stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten... Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor HCI is the built-in recovery functionality. The migration is simple to do from other solutions, such as VMware."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"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."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"The cost must be improved."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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