We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and StorMagic SvSAN 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."High Availability is the best feature of product."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"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."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"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."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"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."
"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."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"It gives zero downtime and it works with two nodes rather than three nodes, unlike other solutions."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"We compared two solutions for this use case, but we went with StorMagic because it had more capabilities than the others. It's also more reliable, especially in production environments that require availability and sustainability."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"What I found most valuable in StorMagic SvSAN is integration. As a software-defined storage solution, it's also very easy to use and it's the trend in the market today. StorMagic SvSAN also made the customer happy because the customer could use his existing hardware with it. The customer had rack-mounted storage, so he didn't want to purchase a dedicated hardware for storage purposes. He just upgraded his hard disk drives."
"The most valuable feature of StorMagic SvSAN is its high availability. We have not had any downtime or data loss. Business continuity is highly important."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"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 documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"Sangfor HCI has room for improvement in terms of integration. So, the integration with Sangfor HCI is not as extensive as in Nutanix."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"They should enable data compression deduplication features for the platform."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
"In terms of what could be improved in StorMagic SvSAN, I don't have a major issue with it, but its user interface should be more customer-oriented."
"If we want to want to replicate the VM to the cloud, or off-site, it does not allow it because of asynchronous. There is no option available."
"The deployment of StorMagic SvSAN is very small. However, you need some time to do it. It's important to make a test deployment before the real deployment."
"There are two features missing: there's no REST API functionality, and there is no date duplication in it."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while StorMagic SvSAN is ranked 13th in HCI with 9 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while StorMagic SvSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorMagic SvSAN writes "The best choice for performance and price". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure, whereas StorMagic SvSAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, DataCore SANsymphony, LINBIT SDS and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. StorMagic SvSAN report.
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