ITS is pleased to announce the availability of the JUCC tender for Sangfor Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) licenses. This offering may serve as an alternative on-premises hypervisor platform, enabling continued operation of Virtual Machines (VMs) if they are converted or rebuilt in the Sangfor VM format.
Why Sangfor HCI?
Sangfor HCI provides several benefits that can be an alternative for university’s diverse needs:
- Cost Efficiency: Significant reduction in licensing and operational expenses compared to VMware.
- Simplified Management: An intuitive interface that reduces administrative overhead.
- Similarity with VMware: Sangfor HCI offers a comprehensive, integrated solution that combines computing, storage, and networking into a single, easy-to-manage platform, which are similar to VMware vSphere and vSAN products.
- Preferred choice of JUCC institutes: A few JUCC institutes are also committed or planning to migrate some of their VMware vSphere hypervisor workloads to Sangfor HCI platform.
What are the available Sangfor licenses in JUCC tender?
The following JUCC tender Sangfor HCI licenses can be purchased by HKU departments:
- Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI):This HCI license includes comprehensive package of following software per physical CPU socket perpetual licenses
- SangforCloud Platform (SCP) Enterprise Edition: An integrated platform for multi-cloud management (including VMware vCentre) per instance subscription license, which is necessary for multi-tenant support, vSphere VM migration to Sangfor
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP):A premium VM backup & recovery software that enable near-zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for business-critical applications per 5-VM subscription license.
- SangforCloud Migration Tool (SCMT): A tool to perform P2V and V2V migration of VMware vSphere virtual machines or physical x86 servers to Sangfor VM per 10-instance subscription license.