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."I find the simplicity of Sangfor very valuable. It is easy to configure and user-friendly. The overall user experience as well as the usability of Sangfor is outstanding."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"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."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"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 was not expensive at all."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"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."
"The orchestration and automation are very valuable."
"The compatibility with vSAN and NSX is the greatest feature of vCloud. It also has integration with vROps, which is quite nice."
"Key enhancements include better synchronization with vCenter and increased reliability, ensuring stability during extensive usage and various actions."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"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."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"The error reporting needs to be improved."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"The cost must be improved."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced integration capabilities with third-party solutions within vCloud Director, especially in networking and data security."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"The initial setup of the vCloud Director was not complex and not easy, it was in the middle range of difficulty. It could be made easier."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"There are too many errors, it could be more stable."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
"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 reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
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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 CloudStack, 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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