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."The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"It's quite easy to install."
"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."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The solution is scalable."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"I'm not a technical guy, and I am pretty much okay with the way it is, but it would help if it was closest to Nutanix in Gartner's Magic Quadrants. Nutanix very often beats us. Nutanix provides Acropolis for free. It probably would be great if we have a virtualization layer. It is something that might be lacking in our solution. We depend on VMware, and it is very expensive. It is lacking the software that allows us to install it with HPE and not depend on a third party."
"The greatest disadvantage is the update process. Every patch or release update must be checked and deployed with the HPE solution, which sometimes is a little bit difficult. It is not difficult in terms of installation, but it is difficult to get the patches in time."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"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."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"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."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"The migration process could be easier."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"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."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
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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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