We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged 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."Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"They offer top-tier support."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"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 are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"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."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"It was not expensive at all."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites."
"The solution needs to add a module or plugin of vCenter for clear monitoring and insights."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"One question that has come up frequently in the last week is whether or not the renewal cost for Sangfor's HCI solution is too high."
"The cost must be improved."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"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."
"Lacks network support."
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HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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