We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and vCloud Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"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."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"You can get almost all the features of the tool at a low cost. The tool also has built-in backup mechanisms. It also has a physical firewall for internet management which other competitors lack."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"We use it to replicate VMs for our customers from one data center to another data center."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"I have found the solution scales well."
"The tool is very stable."
"We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"It has helped us develop a better way of selling services to customers, evolve from the typical housing, and make revenues for the Telefonica company."
"The initial setup was complex. There's a lot of things you have to factor in, like security, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and how to maintain the platform. It's something we still struggle with, but it's getting better."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
"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."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"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."
"The cost must be improved."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"We use vCloud Director along with Terraform, and it's difficult to make them work together. It takes a long time to deploy virtual machines with Terraform in vCloud Director. For example, it can take about one or two hours to create 10 machines. It takes up a lot of our DevOps' and engineers' time in comparison to that with other solutions. This is an area that they should work on and improve."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"Database services need to go beyond what they are currently doing."
"Sometimes, there is a disconnection that happens between vCloud Director and its underlying VMware vCenter, where the actions are supposed to be taking place, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
"vCloud Director could use the vCenter database to store information. This way, we don't end up in a situation where we have things going out of sync."
"The solution's installation is difficult, and you need somebody with the solution's knowledge to do the installation."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 17th in Cloud Management with 28 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 62 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and OpenNebula. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. vCloud Director report.
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