We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"The solution is stable."
"I find the usability very valuable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"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."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"They require more media visibility."
"I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place"
"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."
"Their technical support is very bad. We had an issue where instead of an engineer we got a PDF "doctor" that didn't know anything about our problem which was very frustrating."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"The cost must be improved."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"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."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and OpenNebula.
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