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."Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"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."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"The access, high availability, and interface are the most valuable and important for us. There is one interface for the whole product, which is very important because you have a single pane to view all the infrastructure of a customer. You can improve your data recovery plan or DRP, or you can make a special emergency plan if a disk has any problem."
"We use the Omnicubes to replicate our data to a second datacenter. By having our company data on the Omnicubes, we ensure that all of our data is constantly replicated within the defined intervals to the remote site."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"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."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"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."
"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."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"The product is expensive."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"The cost must 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."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"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."
"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."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 10th 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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