We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"The speed, storage, and management are the most valuable features."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"This is not the only product we use, so we have other solutions to compare it with. We can compare different products and different vendors and tell our customers which products have which advantages and disadvantages so that they can leverage these products in their own environment. This product helps us to understand the customer's needs and what issues they can run into."
"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"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."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"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."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."
"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."
"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."
"Their technical support is very bad. We had an issue where instead of an engineer we got a PDF "doctor" that didn't know anything about our problem which was very frustrating."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"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."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN.
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