We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony 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."In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"I am very happy with this product's ability to adapt, increase, and modify existing infrastructures."
"The ability to pool the storage to leverage thin-provisioning is a huge saving in space and costs."
"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."
"The use of the RAM cache allows you to speed up the writing and reading of data while also allowing for a possible increase in performance by increasing the RAM on the servers."
"The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress)."
"DataCore SANsymphony's stability is okay."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"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 Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"Sangfor HCI's best features are the ability to scale to a bigger size and the roadmap, whereby if they need to replicate their production to disaster recovery, they can do so on the same platform."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"The main problem is there is no DataCore OS."
"I would like for it to improve into a more ergonomic management console and a translation into the French language. It should have some process for a shutdown of a VM properly in case of a problem."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"DataCore SANsymphony should integrate file servers at a good price into the solution."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"Unified storage (all block, objects, and files) should be in a single storage pool with unified storage concepts, hence providing the user with whatever they want."
"The alert system could have more features."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"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."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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