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."One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"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."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"It is stable and scalable."
"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."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"It is flexible like a hyper-convergence system. You can add nodes, and you can scale to have better performance and stability. I also like the backup feature, the recovery system, and the web interface GUI to handle everything."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
"The cloud deployment could be improved."
"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 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."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"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."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"Lacks network support."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
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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 VMware vSAN, VxRail 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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