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 allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"The UCS, which is by far the best management tool there is on the market, regardless of vendor. It's the only tool I see that gives you the opportunity to size and scale all the assets and capacity you have in your data center, from a unified view."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution is stable."
"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"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."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."
"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."
"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."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"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."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"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."
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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 HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN.
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