We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."It was not expensive at all."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"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."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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