The primary use case for Sangfor HCI involves running all workloads that were not for SAP on conventional servers using Hyper-V. We migrated all of these instances from Hyper-V to Sangfor HCI. We also utilize Sangfor HCI for building our own private cloud.
Director - Sales & Operations at Techtrix System
Reseller
Top 5
2024-09-24T07:26:00Z
Sep 24, 2024
Any type of infrastructure, whether it is a customer having a three-tier infrastructure, which we are migrating to converged or hyper-converged, or even customers planning to have their own hybrid cloud-based infrastructure, bringing a cloud foundation within their organization. There are multiple use cases for group companies. People are opting for Sangfor HCI so they can offer cloud-based services to their group companies from a single stack of HCI. Sangfor is present in the manufacturing industry, the hospital and healthcare industry, and the financial industry. The largest deployment in Pakistan is a 48-node cluster, which reduced the requirement from over 100 servers to 48.
Head of IT Governance, Cybersecurity & Network Infrastructure at Indus Motor Company
Real User
Top 5
2024-04-16T08:53:00Z
Apr 16, 2024
Sangfor HCI is designed to manage virtual machines. It allows you to create multiple virtual machines and storage classes. It offers a range of features similar to those provided by VMware and other hyper-converged infrastructure solutions.
In our company, we have a 3-node cluster on our primary site and a 2-node cluster for our entire site. The aforementioned area is a use case attached to the product.
Senior Executive IT Infrastructure at Wateen Telecom (pvt.)
Real User
Top 5
2023-08-14T14:54:32Z
Aug 14, 2023
The main purpose of the solution was to maintain certain private cloud capabilities. However, we only used it to run internal processes due to certain circumstances. We are not using cloud capabilities. We use the solution to scale our hardware using servers.
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From a business perspective, we use Sangfor HCI due to its competitive pricing compared to other competitors such as Nutanix. We have reviewed Nutanix as well and found that Sangfor HCI offers similar ease of use. So, in terms of user interface (UI), the experience is more or less the same.
Branch Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Reseller
Top 20
2023-01-17T11:29:59Z
Jan 17, 2023
HCI is often pitched against VMware licenses, which are expensive. However, Sangfor HCI is more cost-effective and offers more features than VMware. This makes it a strong competitor in the Pakistani market.
IT Sales Engineer at Comstar - Information Systems Associates Ltd.
Real User
Top 5
2022-12-15T14:39:48Z
Dec 15, 2022
It is a smart solution for virtualization. It simplifies the virtualization for clients, and their network is summarized using Sangfor HCI. We directly purchase from Sangfor and provide this solution to many clients in Pakistan with them. Clients are 110% satisfied. They understand the solution, and it's user-friendly.
Chief Technical Officer at Cypher Technology Pvt. Ltd.
Real User
2022-04-05T15:01:00Z
Apr 5, 2022
We use Sangfor HCI for the Sangfor Cloud platform. We are soon going to host our own cloud platform service by using Sangfor HCI. We've already got a conditional queue from one of the customers, and we're consistently in talk with Sangfor regarding this deal. We are working with the trial license of the Sangfor platform. For the first three months, we're going to use it on a trial basis, and after the customer confirms the purchase order, we'll be permanently going for the Sangfor Cloud solution.
It is useful for every case where you have to virtualize machines on-premises or on the cloud, and you need resilience, performance, and so on. It is deployed on-premises, but you can also deploy it on the cloud. It is a hyper-convergence system. There is only one version.
Junior Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Reseller
2020-12-23T11:32:28Z
Dec 23, 2020
A client is using it to build a high availability system to output many virtual machines, save power, and scale it up without the need to subscribe to a cloud provider like Amazon. It is their own HCI.
Sangfor HCI is an IT infrastructure platform built on converged architecture. It integrates server virtualization, distributed storage, and networking. Sangfor HCI provides a unified management platform that converges compute, storage, networking, and security on a single software stack. This approach delivers a simplified architecture, ease of use, and reliability for business-critical applications.
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The primary use case for Sangfor HCI involves running all workloads that were not for SAP on conventional servers using Hyper-V. We migrated all of these instances from Hyper-V to Sangfor HCI. We also utilize Sangfor HCI for building our own private cloud.
Any type of infrastructure, whether it is a customer having a three-tier infrastructure, which we are migrating to converged or hyper-converged, or even customers planning to have their own hybrid cloud-based infrastructure, bringing a cloud foundation within their organization. There are multiple use cases for group companies. People are opting for Sangfor HCI so they can offer cloud-based services to their group companies from a single stack of HCI. Sangfor is present in the manufacturing industry, the hospital and healthcare industry, and the financial industry. The largest deployment in Pakistan is a 48-node cluster, which reduced the requirement from over 100 servers to 48.
I mainly used it for virtualization. Primarily virtualization and security groups.
Sangfor HCI is designed to manage virtual machines. It allows you to create multiple virtual machines and storage classes. It offers a range of features similar to those provided by VMware and other hyper-converged infrastructure solutions.
In our company, we have a 3-node cluster on our primary site and a 2-node cluster for our entire site. The aforementioned area is a use case attached to the product.
The main purpose of the solution was to maintain certain private cloud capabilities. However, we only used it to run internal processes due to certain circumstances. We are not using cloud capabilities. We use the solution to scale our hardware using servers.
From a business perspective, we use Sangfor HCI due to its competitive pricing compared to other competitors such as Nutanix. We have reviewed Nutanix as well and found that Sangfor HCI offers similar ease of use. So, in terms of user interface (UI), the experience is more or less the same.
We are using Sangfor HCI for cloud computing and operating it as an infrastructure-as-a-service.
Our company is based in the Philippines and we are end users of Sangfor. I'm a network administrator.
My customers use Sangfor HCI for the virtualization platform.
We primarily use the solution within the healthcare industry.
HCI is often pitched against VMware licenses, which are expensive. However, Sangfor HCI is more cost-effective and offers more features than VMware. This makes it a strong competitor in the Pakistani market.
It is a smart solution for virtualization. It simplifies the virtualization for clients, and their network is summarized using Sangfor HCI. We directly purchase from Sangfor and provide this solution to many clients in Pakistan with them. Clients are 110% satisfied. They understand the solution, and it's user-friendly.
Sangfor is actually the HCI and we are dealing in that.
We primarily use the solution for the AD, Active Directory, as well as file services.
We use Sangfor HCI for the Sangfor Cloud platform. We are soon going to host our own cloud platform service by using Sangfor HCI. We've already got a conditional queue from one of the customers, and we're consistently in talk with Sangfor regarding this deal. We are working with the trial license of the Sangfor platform. For the first three months, we're going to use it on a trial basis, and after the customer confirms the purchase order, we'll be permanently going for the Sangfor Cloud solution.
We use Sangfor HCI for MES and for ERP systems.
It is useful for every case where you have to virtualize machines on-premises or on the cloud, and you need resilience, performance, and so on. It is deployed on-premises, but you can also deploy it on the cloud. It is a hyper-convergence system. There is only one version.
We use it for SAP products and some other infrastructure applications. We are using its latest version.
A client is using it to build a high availability system to output many virtual machines, save power, and scale it up without the need to subscribe to a cloud provider like Amazon. It is their own HCI.
We are a reseller and Sangfor HCI is one of the products that we have experience with. Our primary use case is for clustering our SaaS.
We are primarily using this product to store our applications. We are using to host data for us to perform analytics on.