We performed a comparison between Sunlight and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"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 have found the solution to be scalable."
"All the features are working great."
"It completely removes the need for a storage network and for a storage administrator and all of that infrastructure and the costs that are involved with them."
"If we decide to expand, vSAN could offer us some flexibility. We are researching ways to set this up from a new data center, which is located somewhere different from the current location right now."
"It allows us to put our infrastructure in remote locations and still get the same performance we get from our onsite SAN solutions."
"It is simple to manage, very easy to implement and troubleshoot in case of any failures."
"The most valuable features are productivity and data storage."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of its scalability: being able to grow it without having to make sure you get the right disks and the right nodes. The solution is also easy to manage. It's all right there in the vSphere Client. You're not going through multiple things. You don't have to know, once you've created the vSAN node. You add storage, it sees it, and you create your data storage from there. Everything is right there for you."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"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."
"If one node out of your ten nodes fails, it takes a lot of time to replicate and rebalance VMware vSAN. This time can be reduced. When a node fails and the data is not accessible, vSAN has to be rebalanced to make the redundancy level of two again. However, if it is taking a lot of time and any other hardware fails during that time, then we have a problem. Two disk failures mean that all data will be lost, and we may have to recover it from the backup. So, the number of threads that run to do the rebalancing could be more so that the time taken to make it fully redundant again is not so much."
"The pricing model is sometimes a challenge for us because their licenses are very costly."
"The monitoring feature in VMware vSAN could be better."
"Only the stretched cluster requires a minor improvement."
"VMware vSAN could improve by adding NAS and object storage."
"The main problem we had was hardware compatibility, finding the right hardware that was certified."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having better integration with other vendors and the storage is limited, I prefer it to the traditional storage."
"The solution could be improved by having more filtered and multiple view volumes instead of a single view."
Sunlight is ranked 29th in HCI with 2 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Sunlight is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Sunlight is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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