We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The interface is very user-friendly."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and 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."
"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 most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable features of the vCloud Director are global management, added services, and automation."
"So far, we have had no problems at all, as it has been very stable. It is working well."
"It has helped us with user segmentation and QA."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"This is the go-to tool for anyone looking for standard out-of-the-box capabilities in a fully multitenant public cloud software that they can leverage to offer services to their customers."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"vCloud Director is a scalable solution, and we have 10 customers who use it."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
"The product could use a billing feature so we can automate billing for clients."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
"We have had very minor problems with it when we've been upgrading."
"I had issues with the support, but I also learned from the support. There is room for improvement in the response time."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 17th in Cloud Management with 28 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and CloudStack, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and OpenNebula. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. vCloud Director report.
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