We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"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."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten... Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"It is extremely stable."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"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."
"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."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"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."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"This is a great product."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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