We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony 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."The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its versatility, with there being support for all new hardware technologies and platforms, disc mirroring and very effective auto tiering."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"Our system is designed to be scalable and flexible, so it can grow and adapt to meet the changing needs of our clients."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"SANsymphony is flexible, with many potential options for implementation. SANsymphony's can be used with VMware, Hyper-V, or even with a hypervisor agnostic approach. It can also be used for strictly physical non-virtualized solutions."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"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 Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"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 manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"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."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as 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."
"DataCore should integrate its own file server into SANsymphony."
"One limitation of this solution is that it's Windows-based, e.g. one requirement to install DataCore SANsymphony SDS is putting it on a Windows server machine. It relies on Windows and that is a limitation because there are some customers who are looking for non Windows systems."
"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"The cost is becoming prohibitive since they moved to a subscription model."
"I think an easier way to open a service call, right through the DataCore GUI, would be an improvement, especially when there is an urgent issue."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"Having an enterprise "Storage Dashboard" that can show capacity, usage, performance, and any issues would be very beneficial."
"As far as I know, no hyper-convergence solution includes security, so you have to buy security from another brand. For example, you buy SimpliVity or Nutanix. They don't really have a security solution inside the product. It would be good if there is a security solution inside this solution so that it is not only for the virtualization of CPU, RAM, disk, and network but also for security."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"The migration process could be easier."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"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."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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