We performed a comparison between Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The price was right."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The consolidation of the management in one control point is the most valuable. The whole infrastructure management is consolidated in just one console point. The documentation is also pretty good."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The most useful feature is the solution's automation in terms of how we are able to spin up a certain workload in real-time when we are doing R&D."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"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 GUI deserves a little love."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is very difficult to operate. You have to have a deep understanding of the technical details of the infrastructure to implement it. When you compare it with VMware, it is totally different because the graphical user interface is not that easy to understand. It is not intuitive. To use it, you have to read a lot of documentation and even understand what is going on behind the solution. It is not for someone who has a little bit of knowledge. Currently, it is too complex. I need something that is easy to implement. It should have a basic configuration as well as a complex configuration."
"The cloud deployment could be improved."
"The licensing policy needs to be improved. They have a licensing policy based on the number of CPU sockets. Nowadays what has happened is that the license they are trying to move is based on the number of CPU cores. With the advancement in technology there are now more cores in a single CPU. It's been very challenging in terms of managing the license around everything. Today we have a processor with 24 and 32 cores on the same physical CPU."
"The main issue is the initial investment. It is an expensive product, and it should be cheaper. It should also be easier to use and manage. The professional service for this solution is quite complex and expensive."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"Lacks network support."
"Currently, when we need to do capacity planning, we have to rely on Sangfor's support team for assistance. However, if there were dedicated tools available, we could handle it ourselves and increase efficiency."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
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Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 23rd in HCI while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 10th in HCI with 28 reviews. Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure writes "Comes in a small, compact model that does not have any separate management but it is not so stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and OpenNebula.
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