We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Sunlight 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."The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor HCI is the built-in recovery functionality. The migration is simple to do from other solutions, such as VMware."
"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."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"It supports the latest technology of NVMe SSD, which is PCIe-based SSD. It has a very good IOPS performance as compared to vSAN. For the same system, I get 1,000 IOPS with vSAN, and with Sunlight, I am able to get almost 10,000 IOPS. In terms of features, it has almost all the features, such as HA and centralized dashboards. It can be managed centrally, and the visibility of the system is very good. They also have very good technical support and customer or partner training."
"The performance and small footprint of this solution are its most valuable features. I am able to obtain and use more than 90 percent of the physical hardware capacity."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"Sangfor could improve its built-in CAP system. Right now, we need to use an external tool for CAP."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"The cost must be improved."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"Its reporting and dashboards need to be improved. It currently has very basic reporting options. It should also be made easier to deploy on Unix operating systems. It is easy to deploy on Windows and Linux, but it is currently not easy to deploy on Unix."
"My recommendation would be to add this technology to Azure, Microsoft Azure so that we can bring it to the market, or deploy it on public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Google. It is currently only available on Amazon's public cloud."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 27th in HCI with 2 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while Sunlight 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 Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and OpenNebula, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. Sunlight report.
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