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NetApp HCI [EOL] vs Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure comparison

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NetApp and Sangfor are both solutions in the HCI category. Additionally, 88% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Sangfor users who would recommend it.
NetApp HCI [EOL]
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    Categories and Ranking

    NetApp HCI [EOL]
    Average Rating
    8.0
    Reviews Sentiment
    5.6
    Number of Reviews
    32
    Ranking in other categories
    No ranking in other categories
    Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converg...
    Average Rating
    8.0
    Reviews Sentiment
    6.8
    Number of Reviews
    31
    Ranking in other categories
    Cloud Management (30th), HCI (10th)
     

    Featured Reviews

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    Massimiliano Bartolozzi
    Chief Information Officer at Lucart S.p.A.
    Crashed continuously, complex to deploy, and bad after-sales support - NETAPP FIXED the problems in 2022
    Their after-sales support, SLA, and third-parties availability should be improved. NetApp's support is very difficult to engage. We have an SLA of onsite support within 24 hours. but they don't respect the SLA. Its stability was very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crashes. In 2022, NetApp Italy, driven by the country manager Davide Marini, fixed all our issues and added additional computation power for free. This is a great example of customer care. They could have done it right the first time of course, but admitting the errors and putting in place such a remediation plan has been a very professional behavior.
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    Zaid Farooqui - PeerSpot reviewer
    Zaid Farooqui
    CIO at Indus Motor Company
    Enhanced private cloud flexibility with superior native backup capabilities
    Sangfor HCI provides the flexibility of building our own private cloud. It has also enhanced our infrastructure management by enabling single-window operations for managing all the HCI clusters, including applications, and offers excellent reporting and visualization capabilities. Furthermore, it supports our AI-driven projects, which involve machine learning and computer vision analytics.
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    Quotes from Members

    We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
     

    Pros

    "The stability is fantastic; in my mind, it's one of the best storage products and the software around it has got to be the best across all different storage environments."
    "It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
    "It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."
    "HCI has helped with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds for the last year. It's faster and more reliable with minimal downtime, as it doesn't require any maintenance."
    "Since implementing this solution, we have to do less work."
    "It is easy to administrate the solution, and the company handles its technical support well."
    "It is easy to set up, and you don't have to do much work to get it to do what it needs to do."
    "Now you don't have to be a storage administrator to provision or do anything, and any VMware system administrator, with the ease of a button, would get storage provision, which makes their lives easier."
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    "The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
    "Sangfor technical support is great."
    "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."
    "I find the simplicity of Sangfor very valuable, it is easy to configure and user-friendly, and the overall user experience as well as the usability of Sangfor is outstanding."
    "Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
    "The price of Sangfor is cheaper than other competing products."
    "Sangfor HCI has a bundle of security features that are easy to monitor on the HCI dashboard."
    "Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
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    Cons

    "The networking needs improvement."
    "It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler."
    "I'd like to see some additional graphics capabilities because I'd like to look at some virtual desktop integration for CAD software."
    "I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."
    "It doesn't have all the data points we need and all the historical data that I would like."
    "At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."
    "They could improve the packaging."
    "The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment."
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    "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."
    "Its virtual machine tools can be improved. These tools should be enhanced for use in other applications and operating systems, such as Linux."
    "The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
    "Stability is also an area for improvement here as well."
    "Overall, I think that this is an average product. I am not satisfied with it and do not recommend that others use it."
    "The interface could be a little bit better."
    "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."
    "The error reporting needs to be improved."
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    Pricing and Cost Advice

    "This solution reduced our maintenance costs. We were going to have to pay one to two million dollars to put in compute nodes. We are avoiding those costs."
    "You still have to pay for the licensing for VMware and Red Hat licenses separately. It's not all inclusive at this point."
    "The price of the solution is okay but could improve."
    "Where we lost nearly 75 percent of our infrastructure due to a malicious attack and were able to recover two and a half hours into it due to the integration, it saved us and all of our customers. Because we were able to recover so fast from the attack, the solution paid for itself right there."
    "Licenses run on a yearly basis, and there aren't any additional fees other than the standard licensing fee."
    "This solution saved our organization time (35 percent) and money. We have a hefty group of developers, and if you multiply that by 30 to 35 percent, that is quite a bit of money."
    "There are the overall infrastructure costs. Even though the initial costing was higher, we calculated for year-to-year for five years. That brought us into a position where we decided, we have to go for HCI rather than having distributor systems."
    "All the licenses are included when you buy the program."
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    "Sangfor needs to be more aggressive because this is a new market or territory for Sangfor. Nepal is a very price-sensitive market, so Sangfor needs to be a little more aggressive with its pricing. I would rate them 3.75 out of five in terms of the price."
    "The solution is very cheap."
    "From a business perspective, we use Sangfor HCI due to its competitive pricing compared to other competitors such as Nutanix."
    "I would say its pricing is between cheap and reasonable and would rate it as three out of five."
    "The product's pricing is less expensive and competitive than other alternatives. I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."
    "Its price should be better, but I don't think they will change the price list. You have to pay for licenses, and you have to pay for support, so you have an annual fee. You can use the product without the fee, but it's really dumb because you need support. We are an IT company. We provide the product, and we need the support too for our customers."
    "The solution has a good initial cost but a high renewal cost."
    "The solution is affordable."
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    Top Industries

    By visitors reading reviews
    Construction Company
    21%
    Outsourcing Company
    11%
    Financial Services Firm
    10%
    Marketing Services Firm
    8%
    Comms Service Provider
    12%
    Manufacturing Company
    11%
    Construction Company
    9%
    Outsourcing Company
    9%
     

    Company Size

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    Large Enterprise
    Midsize Enterprise
    Small Business
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business8
    Midsize Enterprise9
    Large Enterprise19
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business23
    Midsize Enterprise6
    Large Enterprise3
     

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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sangfor HCI?
    I rate the pricing of Sangfor HCI at a five, as it is thirty to thirty-five percent more efficient than other solutions in terms of total cost of ownership.
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    What needs improvement with Sangfor HCI?
    I would like Sangfor to have a presence on some public cloud offerings, such as Azure or AWS, to build disaster recovery sites. This functionality is currently missing in the Pakistani market.
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    What is your primary use case for Sangfor HCI?
    The primary use case for Sangfor HCI involves running all workloads that were not for SAP on conventional servers using Hyper-V. We migrated all of these instances from Hyper-V to Sangfor HCI. We a...
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    Overview

    NetApp HCI is the only true enterprise-scale hyper converged cloud infrastructure. NetApp HCI comes in a 2 RU chassis with 4 node expansion slots.

    NetApp

    Sangfor HCI offers an efficient, user-friendly hyper-converged infrastructure solution with strong integration capabilities. It provides robust scalability, data recovery, and easy cloud support with competitive pricing.

    Sangfor HCI delivers a hyper-converged infrastructure that integrates computing, storage, and networking into a single system. It features a user-friendly interface and seamless integration. The solution offers robust scalability, data recovery capabilities, and built-in backup. Organizations appreciate its single management console and high security through native firewalls. Migration from other platforms is simplified, and native cloud support broadens its appeal. Sangfor HCI allows infrastructure design with topology and comprehensive technical support. However, improvements are needed in command line availability, documentation, security features, performance, and cloud integration.

    What are the most important features of Sangfor HCI?
    • Cost-effectiveness: Offers a competitive pricing structure.
    • Seamless integration: Integrates easily with existing systems.
    • User-friendly interface: Simplifies operations and increases efficiency.
    • Data recovery: Provides strong data recovery and built-in backup.
    • Scalability: Easily scales infrastructure as needed.
    What are the potential benefits when evaluating Sangfor HCI?
    • Cost savings: Provides a cost-effective alternative to traditional systems.
    • Resource utilization: Maximizes existing resources effectively.
    • Management efficiency: Simplifies management with a single console.
    • Security enhancement: Native firewalls ensure high security.
    • Cloud readiness: Supports migration to cloud services smoothly.

    Sangfor HCI is implemented across industries such as financial and manufacturing for virtualization, storage, and network management. It helps manage virtual machines and private cloud capabilities, supporting business applications like MES, ERP, SAP, and healthcare services. Organizations value its competitive pricing and cost-effective approach compared to other solutions, allowing workload shifts from conventional servers while maximizing resource utilization.

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    Sample Customers

    American Showa, Children's Mercy, Coca-Cola, Consultel Cloud, Evangelische Landeskirche in Wurttemberg, Imperva, Surface Mount Technology
    TOSHIBA TEC Singapore, J&T Express Indonesia, Crowne Plaza Vietnam, Hermina Hospital Indonesia
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