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."The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable feature for me as it allows me to scale the hardware according to project requirements."
"It has solid performance and provides data locality."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"One of the main features of the solution is that it works on many hypervisors. It is a big advantage. Additionally, the solution is compatible with VMware and Hyper-V, and the management interface, which is called Prism, is very intuitive and user-friendly."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"It was not expensive at all."
"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."
"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."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"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."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"The GUI for this solution needs improvement."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"The latency needs improvement"
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"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."
"One thing to keep in mind is that only experts can use it. It has to be in the proper hands, instead of going to XYZ people just for some cost savings. So lift-and-shift and migrations might be tricky, because it is not like a VMware."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be 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."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 10th 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, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Ceph Storage, 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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