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."High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"Management is simple"
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is easy to use, integrates with other hardware configurations, and is simple to manage."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"The architecture of Nutanix is the best, and the virtualization we get, out of the box, is an advantage. Also, dedupe and compression are done natively, inside the platform, so there are no additional licenses. That adds value to it."
"One of the most valuable features is the One-Click Upgrade. When I need to update the system, I do it with one click. This product is amazing because everything is easy to manage, from network management to snapshots."
"It was not expensive at all."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"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."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"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."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"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."
"When we have issues with the solution, they tend to be around networking."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"The migration process could be easier."
"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."
"The cost must be improved."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
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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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