We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony 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 StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"It is a well-proven, automated management tool in all dynamic provisioning, auto-tiering, great performance, parallel I/O, cache speed mechanism, etc."
"DataCore has helped provide flexible, highly available, high-performance storage that otherwise would have been outside our price range."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"Oracle OLTP benchmark to test how it improves the performance while using flash drive NVMe."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"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 solution provides a single management console."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"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 is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"We are waiting for container support (on the roadmap), as well as a user-friendly full web-administration capability, and an improved API."
"If it could integrate to a cloud gateway, then we could carry it directly to storage, instead of having middleware in between the storage and the cloud."
"If you're dealing with big databases or transactional databases, it might not be the best-suited solution. The design of DataCore's solution isn't oriented towards this type of data."
"I think the performance reporting can be improved by adding historical statistics into a database for the purpose of comparing."
"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."
"It would be ideal if they were providing archive licensing with the ability to create a second pool on existing storage nodes."
"The solution could be better packaged and marketed."
"The solution is constantly evolving."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"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."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"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."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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