We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity 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."Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"It comes all in one box."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The ease of managing this system."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"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."
"Sangfor has many solutions, and you can easily manage their machine servers with just one management. They're always striving for greatness, and they continuously update their products. For example, they have now built endpoint security within the firewall. They are continuously improving not only the security but also all other products."
"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."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"The stability and scalability of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"File level restores work well, but indexing will help make the process faster."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"Lacks network support."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"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."
"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."
"The migration process could be easier."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Hyper Converged and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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