We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] 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."I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"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 failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"With our four HyperFlex HX hosts (consisting of processor, memory, and disk), the performance is very fast and we have no problems at all. In all of the five years that we have been using HyperFlex, we haven't needed to increase our budget to buy additional hosts."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"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."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"Maybe a better version is required to gather all of the information to allow HyperFlex to bring everything online more rapidly."
"They can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"You have to get the same servers with the same storage; they need to be identical. However, in vSAN or in VMware we don't have to do that. We can just add storage and manage it in the same server."
"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."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"As far as I know, no hyper-convergence solution includes security, so you have to buy security from another brand. For example, you buy SimpliVity or Nutanix. They don't really have a security solution inside the product. It would be good if there is a security solution inside this solution so that it is not only for the virtualization of CPU, RAM, disk, and network but also for security."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN.
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