We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VxRail 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 fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"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 is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"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."
"It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"I like the managed updates. They are really nice in VxRail. Everything comes packaged and the updates are much easier than with other solutions that I've had to work with."
"The ease of deployment and management of the solution are the most valuable aspects of the product."
"RecoverPoint give us peace of mind knowing any corruption or server issue can be rectified very quickly, making sure the business impact is minimal."
"The most valuable feature is its high performance."
"The solution is easy to use. When turning on a server or a machine that is required for, deployment or quality assurance, the dynamic deployment of resources is good."
"For me, VxRail's most valuable feature is its life-cycle management."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The cost must be improved."
"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 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."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"The migration process could be easier."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"If they can provide deduplication compression through the traditional hard drives, as Cisco does in the HyperFlex system, it will be very cost-effective, especially when it comes to archiving workload. VxRail doesn't allow the mixing of old flash clusters and hyper clusters. When I'm starting with an old flash cluster and it comes to archiving workload, I will also need to attend the new cluster. So, I either manage two different clusters, or I pay and upload my work with the archiving mobile hard drive, which is not cost-effective at all. The main key is to allow mixing between two types of clustering, like Nutanix, or allow deduplication of completion over the period of shared hard drive on SAV. It will be much better."
"If VxRail could also offer file services in addition to virtualization, that would be nice because sometimes people want to complement their environment with file services, and you don't have that in VxRail."
"I would like them to include an easier solution to host its own DNS. When they changed to version 6.5, they took out the easy features of letting the rail be its own DNS. You can still trick the system and make the VxRail Manager another one of the rail-required VMs become the DNS, but it's a lot of extra work. I'd like to see it put back into the UI."
"Dell wants to implement the disaster site in the new year, but they haven't decided yet. I hope we will have the opportunity to sell VxRail with this disaster site. It is not really clear at the moment, but hopefully, we will get some good news from the customers in the new year."
"The full solution is not completely included as a bundle, such as we see with SimpliVity."
"The cost is quite high. It's a very expensive solution to run."
"Obtaining support was hindered by the frequent changes to the hotline numbers."
"The licensing needs to be improved upon."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity, HPE Hyper Converged and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. VxRail report.
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