We performed a comparison between Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure 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."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."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"It is stable and scalable."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"The most useful feature is the solution's automation in terms of how we are able to spin up a certain workload in real-time when we are doing R&D."
"The consolidation of the management in one control point is the most valuable. The whole infrastructure management is consolidated in just one console point. The documentation is also pretty good."
"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 is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"You can get almost all the features of the tool at a low cost. The tool also has built-in backup mechanisms. It also has a physical firewall for internet management which other competitors lack."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"The documentation could be better."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is very difficult to operate. You have to have a deep understanding of the technical details of the infrastructure to implement it. When you compare it with VMware, it is totally different because the graphical user interface is not that easy to understand. It is not intuitive. To use it, you have to read a lot of documentation and even understand what is going on behind the solution. It is not for someone who has a little bit of knowledge. Currently, it is too complex. I need something that is easy to implement. It should have a basic configuration as well as a complex configuration."
"The cloud deployment could be improved."
"The licensing policy needs to be improved. They have a licensing policy based on the number of CPU sockets. Nowadays what has happened is that the license they are trying to move is based on the number of CPU cores. With the advancement in technology there are now more cores in a single CPU. It's been very challenging in terms of managing the license around everything. Today we have a processor with 24 and 32 cores on the same physical CPU."
"The main issue is the initial investment. It is an expensive product, and it should be cheaper. It should also be easier to use and manage. The professional service for this solution is quite complex and expensive."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"The cost must be improved."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"The migration process could be easier."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
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Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 22nd in HCI while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure writes "Comes in a small, compact model that does not have any separate management but it is not so stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and OpenNebula.
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