We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS has very good stability."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"The most valuable feature is Move, which allows you to migrate virtual machines from VM to AHV."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"Its most valuable feature is simplicity. It is so easy to use. Upgrades are easy. It is easy in terms of disaster recovery, failover, database provisioning, and reporting. Everything about it is just simple."
"To receive a performance enhancement by merely clicking the one button upgrade is the true value of the platform and what I look forward to the most."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"It was not expensive at all."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"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."
"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 would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"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."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"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."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"Reduce its power consumption."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"There is a need is to be able to consume Nutanix storage from outside the cluster for other, non-Nutanix workloads."
"With some projects that we are deploying, there are errors that arise when adding nodes."
"I think some of the tasks that must be done using CLI could be added to the web interface."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"The migration process could be easier."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"Lacks network support."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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