We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VxRail 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 best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"You can get almost all the features of the tool at a low cost. The tool also has built-in backup mechanisms. It also has a physical firewall for internet management which other competitors lack."
"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 most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"The solution provides a single management console."
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"VxRail has improved our organization by providing our admin team with an easy-to-use interface."
"The implementation was quick, we used a checklist and it took approximately one hour."
"The major advantage is the blueprint. You do not need to separately manage the sand or network part because it all gets virtualized."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it allows everything to be integrated into a single model, comprised of hardware and software."
"I have found the vSAN is highly flexible. The documentation is good and the interface of the solution is responsive and fast. The interface has everything you need to manage the solution, such as the VxRail and VMware integration. You can manage the hardware from within the VMware plasma pan."
"My customers use it for VDI. It has been very usable and very fast to use with VDI. On the VxRail side also, it has been very fast."
"It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"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."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"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."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"The cost must 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."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"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."
"Lacks network support."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"They should add automation and activation going forward."
"Dell wants to implement the disaster site in the new year, but they haven't decided yet. I hope we will have the opportunity to sell VxRail with this disaster site. It is not really clear at the moment, but hopefully, we will get some good news from the customers in the new year."
"Supply chain capabilities are certainly hurting us. We're in the process of placing a large order for more VxRail nodes right now."
"There is limited support for SAP HANA with this solution."
"We would like to see integrating with Nutanix. Currently, we are working on integrating the two to see if there is any value in doing so."
"Troubleshooting can be a little more difficult than legacy systems."
"It still has some maturity to grow. It needs to be more tightly integrated with its own family of products. It has shown that it is open with the other products within the market, through its stack, but it needs to have the proof in the market (with use-cases), and it has to have the scalability with the integration."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity, HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. VxRail report.
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