We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"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."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"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."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"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."
"The migration process could be easier."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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