VMware vSAN Alternatives

We have been a SCALE customer for over 10 years. As our school district has grown, so has SCALE (product features) as well as the implementation of our SCALE Clusters (to match our size needs and increases). In many situations and use cases in technologies, these types of increases have a cascading impact: More users requires more storage and processing capabilities; more capabilities requires more servers; more services requires more space; increased space requires more cooling... and so on. HOWEVER, with SCALE, this is absolutely NOT the case. Despite our recent 40% growth, our overall footprint, along with supporting resources has not grown in size and space. The SCALE technology is so efficient that we rotate to new equipment, which often consumes less space and resources. Think about this when compared to other virtualization resources: More of everything! If SCALE wasn't already the top provider, they are now making it possible for us to utilize some of our existing resources for scenarios where space is limited. Every year we attend SCALE Platform and come away energized knowing we have the best technology available to manage our district systems. SCALE is exceptionally reliable and we're fortunate to have the company as a partner to the district.

Product is very robust and very easy to deploy, and once it's deployed it will run forever without any issues. Most importantly the local snapshot feature where you can stay as you want and update the process through LCM which is great.

We started on the Free VirtualSAN and while it met our initial needs we realized we needed more control. After purchasing the software StarWind's support reached out to set up an implementation and a Knowledge Expert walked me through the entire process. Since then it has run flawlessly and I have not had to really touch any part of it.

A solid release that prioritizes security and hybrid-cloud functionality, feels incredibly stable for hosting our .net applications and managing local infrastructure successfully bridging the gap between on premise hardware and Azure cloud services.

Before Simplivity, our backup and DR processes felt fragile and time consuming. Now, they're quietly dependable. Policy-based replication gives us peace of mind, and those sub-minute VM restores have been a lifesaver during maintenance windows. Our VMware admins adopted it quickly because it didn't feel like learning a whole new platform. Storage savings from deduplication were better than we expected.

The usability of tje product is a little morr confusing at times than it needs to be. The hardware however performs very well.

Perfect solution with an affordable price that permits usage of small VMWare infrastructure without dedicated storage.

We recently transitioned from a well-established market leader to Sangfor HCI. While the initial decision was driven by cost optimization, the proof-of-concept phase and detailed technical evaluation revealed that the platform offers a robust and mature features. From an architectural and operational perspective in our scenario, Sangfor HCI has proven to be highly effective in managing multiple HCI clusters across low-bandwidth and remote sites. The SCP (Sangfor Cloud Platform) provides centralized management, monitoring and reporting capabilities that integrate seamlessly with the underlying HCI infrastructure. Overall, the Sangfor HCI along with SCP delivers strong stability, scalability and centralized manageability without the complexity or licensing overhead compared to typical enterprise HCI solutions.