We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VxRail 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."The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"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."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"It gives us tons of flexibility. We can create new machines, then destroy them if they don't work out. We test a lot of use cases that may or may not play out. We can build all types of scenarios into virtual machines that we may or may not use. If we don't use them, we just turn them off, no using up resources."
"Dell owns the EMC, EMC owns VMware, and there are many other interconnections throughout the industry which allows a fully integrated solution from a technical perspective."
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"The most valuable feature for me in this latest release has been the ability to add a compute or storage node. In the previous release, if I wanted to add only the compute mode, I need to buy a full node, including both compute and storage. That is no longer the case; I can upgrade whatever I want one based on my demand."
"One beneficial feature is that the solution can handle complex environments."
"It is the most valuable Software Defined Storage ever to manage all storage workloads, and also offers high availability."
"VxRail is an agile solution with easily scalable, simplify operations with software driven automation and lower operational cost."
"The most valuable features are ease of management and ease of applying updates."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"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."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"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 solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"The configurations of VxRail can be difficult. However, it has improved in the newer version. From version 6 to 7, there has been a lot of changes."
"A disadvantage is that the initial first deployment can be complicated."
"In the version that I was working with, the integrations are in need of improvement."
"VxRail is a closed system with an out-of-the -box solution approach, it has basic 3 layers, Hardware, Network, Storage, Software, (Virtualizing) Applications. Release notes and improvement tips, patches from the back office, the business units, should be frequent and up to the patches which are coming from different vendors as far as the operating system application and also the technology itself is concerned."
"Its price needs to be improved. It is very expensive. NSX should be licensed together. It will make the network virtualization layer more usable. It would be better if they come together in a bundle, not separately."
"I would like to see Dell take a crack at simplifying the process of moving from a node to a cluster and assembling everything into the appliance. It would be great if Dell could provide a pathway where a customer could actually install it without the certifications. Of course, I can't say how you would dumb down something so complex."
"Right now, it's difficult for a non-technical person to participate in using the product. It could be made more consumer-friendly."
"Deployment was not initially straightforward for us. We had an incompatibility issue that was very difficult for Dell Professional Service to solve."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 10th in HCI with 28 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 117 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity, HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. VxRail report.
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