We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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."It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The most valuable feature is the overall integration and just seeing the three different layers which make up the machine software. Altogether, it's something that I would say is much better than any other solution that I have experienced before."
"The program is stable."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"The support team responds quickly."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"It was not expensive at all."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"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."
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Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 19 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity 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. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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