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."The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"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."
"We can get backups faster. We have a smaller footprint for hardware, which takes up less space. So, we use less electricity and floor space."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"The storage efficiency is valuable."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"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."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"It was not expensive at all."
"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."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"The migration process could be easier."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"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."
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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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