We performed a comparison between DataCore SANsymphony 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."Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"It's a software storage solution that can scale as we like. There is also has a parallel feature that enhances the performance of the storage solution. We can separate storage and computing, and we can scale these two parts of the platform to meet business needs efficiently."
"During the maintenance periods, on any part of the storage or VMware migration, we have had no downtime."
"Active-active is the most valuable aspect for us."
"Mirroring is the most valuable feature because I can provide a high-level of service and optimize the use of obsolete storage."
"Continuous data protection (CDP), can be used to "protect" again ransomware by recording all write on disk in a log. You can recover your data with incredible time granularity."
"The most valuable feature of DataCore SANsymphony SDS is its high availability. This solution also exhibits good performance and has high stability."
"Auto-tiering to obtain performance at a lower cost without the customer having to purchase ultra-fast storage is great."
"The features I have found most valuable are the active-active, or so-called grid technology, and the integration into our VMware-vCenter."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"It was not expensive at all."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"There is room for improvement in the graphical interface."
"DataCore needs a more efficient and better way to keep track of metrics and counters so that we can do baseline analysis to measure performance."
"I still see room for improvement with DataCore SANsymphony in the area of alarm and task management."
"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."
"I'd like to see the company make the renewal of the software cheaper."
"The cloud reporting interface is quite poor compared to other vendors."
"I found it a little unnecessary to have to rename the configurations within the graphics console in order to have unique names."
"Management could be improved. The management console sometimes reacts very slowly."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"Lacks network support."
"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."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"As far as I know, no hyper-convergence solution includes security, so you have to buy security from another brand. For example, you buy SimpliVity or Nutanix. They don't really have a security solution inside the product. It would be good if there is a security solution inside this solution so that it is not only for the virtualization of CPU, RAM, disk, and network but also for security."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
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DataCore SANsymphony is ranked 7th in HCI with 54 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. DataCore SANsymphony is rated 9.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DataCore SANsymphony writes "Robust with good replication and access protection ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". DataCore SANsymphony is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and VxRail, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our DataCore SANsymphony vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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