We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged 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."The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"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."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"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."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"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."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"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 would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Its technical support services could be faster."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"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."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"Lacks network support."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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