We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"Single click actions is definitely the most important. They were not even aware that they wanted this."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"It has a user-friendly dashboard and interface."
"Karbon is a must-have as it drastically simplifies the deployment of Kubernetes."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure's most valuable feature is the flexibility to move the VMs easily, keeping everything together."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"The dashboard of Nutanix Acropolis AOS allows for simple management. The dashboard has all the information online about what's going on at any given time."
"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."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"It is flexible like a hyper-convergence system. You can add nodes, and you can scale to have better performance and stability. I also like the backup feature, the recovery system, and the web interface GUI to handle everything."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"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."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"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."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"I believe that improvements could be made in regards to the DR in addition to deduplication and integration with others platforms. They also do not offer opportunities for network virtualization so it would be nice to see that in the future."
"If we can have certified compatibility with other companies, such as Oracle, then it would let us know that they function correctly together."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"I think some of the tasks that must be done using CLI could be added to the web interface."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"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 error reporting needs to be improved."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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