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."Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restore."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"Sangfor HCI's best features are the ability to scale to a bigger size and the roadmap, whereby if they need to replicate their production to disaster recovery, they can do so on the same platform."
"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."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"The product is expensive."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"It crashes often. When one particular VM has random, large IOPS requests, it will bog down the node, and there isn't enough time for the replica to be brought up. So all the VMs on that one particular node will essentially become offline."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"The cost must be improved."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 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 StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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