We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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."Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"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"
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"The solution is well integrated with other vendors."
"The ease of deployment is very good."
"The technology of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is the most valuable feature. You don't need multiple screens to manage."
"The architecture of Nutanix is the best, and the virtualization we get, out of the box, is an advantage. Also, dedupe and compression are done natively, inside the platform, so there are no additional licenses. That adds value to it."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It has a single pane of glass and you don't have to jump around various toolsets."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure is its low cost, guaranteed to failover and failback with only a few clicks."
"What's best about Nutanix Acropolis AOS is its simplicity. It's simple to install and simple to understand. The technical support and support portal for this product are both very good and very helpful."
"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."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"There is room to enhance the micro-segmentation."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"The licenses for Nutanix are very complicated."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"The scalability of Nutanix Acropolis AOS needs improvement."
"Deployment could be more user-friendly - currently, it requires certain skills with the network and nodes."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"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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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 27th 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 VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Sunlight report.
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