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."Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."
"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."
"Our customers have seen ROI in terms of the time they save troubleshooting."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"The speed, storage, and management are the most valuable features."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"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."
"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."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"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."
"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"I would like a lighter product; something which can be carried by a mere human. The typical size still looks like a stack of data center-sized servers, which is typically fine, but not so good if you want to carry it around."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."
"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."
"The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"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."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"The migration process could be easier."
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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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