We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity 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 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."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"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."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"We use the Omnicubes to replicate our data to a second datacenter. By having our company data on the Omnicubes, we ensure that all of our data is constantly replicated within the defined intervals to the remote site."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor HCI is the built-in recovery functionality. The migration is simple to do from other solutions, such as VMware."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"The solution provides a single management console."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"Sangfor has many solutions, and you can easily manage their machine servers with just one management. They're always striving for greatness, and they continuously update their products. For example, they have now built endpoint security within the firewall. They are continuously improving not only the security but also all other products."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"Product doesn't scale."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"The cost must be improved."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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