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 biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"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 has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"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 of Sangfor HCI is the built-in recovery functionality. The migration is simple to do from other solutions, such as VMware."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"Sangfor has many solutions, and you can easily manage their machine servers with just one management. They're always striving for greatness, and they continuously update their products. For example, they have now built endpoint security within the firewall. They are continuously improving not only the security but also all other products."
"The compute is good and we have not had any issues with the vSAN."
"I have found that the admin deployment, monitoring off-premises, and the many services important features. Additionally, the solution has good integration."
"Compared with other products, the IT administrator or IT integrator doesn't take much time to get the tool up and running."
"VxRail alleviates the operational constraints within an organization."
"For me, the most valuable feature is in relation to the software updates."
"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."
"The pricing is very, very good."
"We have seen ROI using this solution. It has simplified the work of the staff that we have which allows us to do more work with the same number of people, without having to incrementally grow the staff. The reliability of the product has been exceptional."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"As far as I know, no hyper-convergence solution includes security, so you have to buy security from another brand. For example, you buy SimpliVity or Nutanix. They don't really have a security solution inside the product. It would be good if there is a security solution inside this solution so that it is not only for the virtualization of CPU, RAM, disk, and network but also for security."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"Lacks network support."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"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."
"The agility of the support team to provide you with better solutions should be improved. VxRail also has to be improved in terms of simplicity. Adding a simple node seemed like quite a project."
"A disadvantage is that the initial first deployment can be complicated."
"Technically speaking, the vCenter and the administration of the integration of the vCenter could be improved."
"I would like better integration with VCF from VMware, which is the Cloud Foundation tool set, so we can easily provision servers very quickly."
"I would like to see integration with vCenter if possible."
"The price could be better. The backup mechanism could also be better. Some of our clients prefer to work with backup software from a different vendor. They don't do a built-in backup solution. It would be better if they had guidelines on proper sizing and the whole life cycle from the requirement collection. If there aren't any proper guidelines, how do I go to the customer and evaluate their existing infrastructure? How can you do appropriate sizing to migrate to a hyper-converged environment? I think this is a requirement because most of our clients are migrating to a hyper-converged environment. In the next release, they can improve absolutely anything you can think of to improve the product in general—for example, the clusters and backup software."
"If they continue developing their product regarding VMware, it will be one of the best products in the HCI space. In terms of additional features, there is nothing missing because, for data protection, they also have the CDP option for VM. They can protect the VM at any point in time."
"I would like them to include an easier solution to host its own DNS. When they changed to version 6.5, they took out the easy features of letting the rail be its own DNS. You can still trick the system and make the VxRail Manager another one of the rail-required VMs become the DNS, but it's a lot of extra work. I'd like to see it put back into the UI."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 119 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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