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."We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"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."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"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 solution provides a single management console."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight 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."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"The solution is really stable."
"The ease of deployment and management of the solution are the most valuable aspects of the product."
"The update process is very convenient."
"The most valuable feature in the VxRail solution is the software that binds the management portal and its ease of use of managing the environment. The guys don't have to worry about getting multiple solutions specialist. You can have one person looking at and managing the whole environment."
"The recent technologies and management features that have been implemented."
"Enterprise is a complete solution that includes performance, backups and disaster recovery."
"Being able to perform upgrades and check the system through the VxRail Manager has been very helpful."
"The major advantage is the blueprint. You do not need to separately manage the sand or network part because it all gets virtualized."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"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."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"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."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"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."
"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 documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"As far as I know, no hyper-convergence solution includes security, so you have to buy security from another brand. For example, you buy SimpliVity or Nutanix. They don't really have a security solution inside the product. It would be good if there is a security solution inside this solution so that it is not only for the virtualization of CPU, RAM, disk, and network but also for security."
"The solution should offer more integration with other virtual software. VxRail runs just with VMware, however, maybe it should integrate with Hyper-V or with KVM as well."
"The technical support is good but could be better."
"I would like to see VxRail add duplication features to its hybrid solution."
"The solution is vendor-locked and Dell is the only supplier of VxRail."
"What I find very valuable is VxRail's life cycle management. The life cycle management takes care of everything from firmware to the actual upgrading of the hypervisor and keeps everything up to level."
"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."
"I would like an easier migration. This way, if a node fails like it did, the data would have been migrated and I would not have had to get up at three in the morning."
"There is limited support for SAP HANA with this solution."
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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 117 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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