We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"Everything is core centralized on the UI."
"Its most valuable feature is simplicity. It is so easy to use. Upgrades are easy. It is easy in terms of disaster recovery, failover, database provisioning, and reporting. Everything about it is just simple."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable features are all the cloud facilities or benefits it provides for my data center."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"The most valuable features are the RBAC, role-based access control, and the reporting. NCI also provides a single platform, a single pane with a dashboard, to manage the entire infrastructure. We have complete information about overall utilization, performance, and a forecast for our platform in that single pane."
"The most valuable feature would be the ease of deployment. That is the most significant feature for me because I've worked with multiple vendors and it's always been very complicated to install the software and get everything running."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"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."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"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 Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"I find the simplicity of Sangfor very valuable. It is easy to configure and user-friendly. The overall user experience as well as the usability of Sangfor is outstanding."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"It is flexible like a hyper-convergence system. You can add nodes, and you can scale to have better performance and stability. I also like the backup feature, the recovery system, and the web interface GUI to handle everything."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"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."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"They have offered some new features that I have not deployed so I assume that these issues might have been addressed already, but, at my time there was a networking problem."
"The look and feel of the web GUI of this system needs improvement, when compared to other systems. Its hardware integration also needs improvement."
"In Thailand, there really isn't a cloud version of Nutanx available to us."
"The product needs improvement in the areas of SAN attachment for high capacity and high I/O profile workloads."
"While their overall Nutanix Bible is good, they are lacking good descriptions for particular scenarios that might be helpful to many users."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"Areas for improvement would be the memory setting and the CPU setting reserve features, which are not available on Acropolis. I also feel that the DR solution, the reporting, and the component that is combined with the Nutanix OSP need to be improved."
"They should support more VM, which is not currently supported."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"Lacks network support."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"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."
"The migration process could be easier."
"Currently, when we need to do capacity planning, we have to rely on Sangfor's support team for assistance. However, if there were dedicated tools available, we could handle it ourselves and increase efficiency."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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