We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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."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."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."
"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Scalability is easy and simple."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"Support is very responsive."
"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"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."
"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."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"It was not expensive at all."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"Lacks network support."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series 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 is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Rubrik, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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