We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] 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."The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"It is helpful as a backup solution."
"Great integration with backup software."
"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"The flexibility is its most valuable feature; the ability to quickly deploy a number of help machines. It is not constrained by what we want to do."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."
"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"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 has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"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."
"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."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."
"We would like to see better integration in the next release of this solution."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"The cost must be improved."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"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."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN.
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