We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Sunlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"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"
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The price was right."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"Management is simple"
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"Ease of deployment"
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and its good performance."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its software Move, which we use to migrate virtual info from another platform to the Nutanix platform."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"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."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"I believe that improvements could be made in regards to the DR in addition to deduplication and integration with others platforms. They also do not offer opportunities for network virtualization so it would be nice to see that in the future."
"I would like them to update their licensing to provide more features with their basic license."
"The price could be lower."
"The patch updates of Nutanix Acropolis could be improved. I'm work on the corporate side, but I get feedback from our IT team that patch updates and other updates are taking a significantly longer time. This definitely needs to be resolved. We are in discussion with Nutanix regarding certain configuration issues we are having, so maybe something can be changed to ease these patch updates."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"Nutanix has a complex infrastructure, we have customers that consider VMware instead. Additionally, the performance could be better."
"The solution doesn't support older systems, which can be a problem for some organizations who wish to implement it. It became a problem for us due to the fact that some of our systems are older."
"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."
"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."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 28th in HCI with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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