We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VMware Aria Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"We have faster delivery times through its automation."
"vRealize automation stability is pretty good. They are always fixing bugs. The product team is doing a great job of addressing any issues that we might have."
"The blueprint functionality of the product is intuitive and user-friendly. The concept of the blueprints is visual and easy to use."
"It's quite user friendly. Everyone can use it, even non-technical people. This is good, since we use it to build a self-service portal which even users with not a lot of technical background can use."
"We provided the ability to request virtual machines to our end users. Before, this was a very manual process, which took engineers to do. Now, it's an automated process."
"Our users can order VMs using the API."
"It is also intuitive and user-friendly... With vRealize, we can have a Help Desk individual, who might not be that techy, provision the different elements quite easily, with no almost training at all."
"vRA provides that single pane of glass for our cloud tenants to deploy, monitor, access, and manage their VMs/guest operating systems."
"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."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Lacks network support."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"It should have object storage. It already has network virtualization and micro-segmentation, but it is missing object storage. It does not have object storage. vSAN also does not have object storage, but Nutanix has object storage, and it is natively integrated into its HCI. So, if you pay for the object storage license, you have that module pre-built."
"It is too broad scale and complicated. It takes too many clicks to do things."
"Upgrades are always a pain."
"I would like to see more automation, more ways to automate automation tasks."
"It does go down from time to time. We have some issues with the appliances sometimes and we have to do reboots in the middle of the day. That affects the ability for them to deploy."
"It is not super-intuitive. It does require some skills to understand how to use it. I had no problem, but I had spent a lot of time already learning this product ahead of moving it to an operational status. But as we did so, we had a hard time bringing some people from other groups into the fold, to script and work against this environment. So, the ability to build workflows within that automation needs to be streamlined."
"The initial setup was complex because we have a high availability cluster. Especially when it comes to upgrades, we have a lot of downtimes and problems. The upgrade experience has been painful."
"The upgrade process 6.x to 7.3 was a significant effort. I'm hoping that 7.3 to the next version is much smoother."
"It was a complex setup. We had to use the consultant from VMware to make the solution work well."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 16th in Cloud Management with 28 reviews while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 133 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. 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 Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and vCenter Orchestrator. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. VMware Aria Automation report.
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