We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI and VMware vSAN based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sangfor HCI and VMware vSAN come out about equal in this comparison. Sangfor HCI has an edge when it comes to pricing, but VMware vSAN has an edge when it comes to ease of deployment.
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"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 initial setup isn't hard."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"It was not expensive at all."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"It's completely hyper-converged, so it's very convenient."
"Being able to deploy multiple applications with virtual servers is the most valuable for us. The capacity of the system is quite constant so it's got some of the good features."
"It is easy to find information out there, not only from searching the web, but even the times I have engaged VMware support."
"The features of vSAN allow us to reduce our operational complexity to a large degree."
"vSAN that has been most effective in streamlining storage operations. For data recovery alerts, it uses tools like snapshots and vMotion."
"I like the orchestration feature."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the total hyperconverged facility."
"The product’s most valuable features are performance and expandability."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"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."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"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."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"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."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
"There is a lot that VMware could improve from a marketing perspective. The cloud is still new for many people, so extending storage should be effortless. It shouldn't be so complicated to extend the storage so workloads can access it no matter where they go."
"Virtual machines disk size cannot cap more than a single node. For a VDI user, it may not save enough to hold a file server or exchange server on a single node storage space."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"Dedupe in non flash drives can be improved."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having better integration with other vendors and the storage is limited, I prefer it to the traditional storage."
"External storage would be a good thing to have in the next release, something other than iSCZI, something a little more, not HA, a little more production-oriented, than iSCZI."
More Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure Pricing and Cost Advice →
Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Hyper Converged and OpenNebula, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. VMware vSAN report.
See our list of best HCI vendors.
We monitor all HCI reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.