We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI and VMware vSAN based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sangfor HCI and VMware vSAN come out about equal in this comparison. Sangfor HCI has an edge when it comes to pricing, but VMware vSAN has an edge when it comes to ease of deployment.
"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."
"It is extremely stable."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"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."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"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 VMware vSAN is the ease of management. VMware vSAN it's a part of VMware ESXi and when you do patching for VMware ESXi, VMware vSAN receives the patches too."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is fhe flexibility, the ability to move the machines around without hesitation."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"As a function of our core business, it's a sought after tool that helps us provide analytical support across a wide spectrum of client needs. It's allowed us to test out in our connected restaurant - "TheWorks" - a fully-functional restaurant experience center that allows our clients to discover the value of our connected solutions firsthand. We deploy vSAN in this customer-like environment within a hyperconvergent infrastruction (HCI) to give our clients a better understanding and help optimize data and the end-users' experience."
"The lower skill cost of maintaining it meant that we could do more with the people that we had."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is stable."
"VMware vSAN is easy to implement in a VMware environment and it is not expensive."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"This solution is not great for large file shares/object/rich media repository."
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
"Its integration with a hybrid cloud can be improved. Its scalability can also be improved so that it can be integrated with more than 32 nodes. The maximum number of nodes is okay, but our use cases could probably do with more nodes, probably up to 64. In terms of new features, it should probably have the basic support for high-speed networking spaces."
"One of the things that we've had challenges with are when we place hosts into maintenance mode. Sometimes doing so triggers large re-sync processes which can be time-consuming and which have, at times, pushed the capacity to the threshold. I definitely think making some changes in that area would provide some big improvements."
"External storage would be a good thing to have in the next release, something other than iSCZI, something a little more, not HA, a little more production-oriented, than iSCZI."
"In a future release, they can bring in the object storage capabilities to this solution. Currently, there is not any compatibility."
"I would love for this product to be cheaper and easier to configure."
"It is a memory intensive app."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. VMware vSAN report.
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