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 support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"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."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"Sangfor HCI's best features are the ability to scale to a bigger size and the roadmap, whereby if they need to replicate their production to disaster recovery, they can do so on the same platform."
"It was not expensive at all."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"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."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"They require more media visibility."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"The cost must be improved."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"Currently, when we need to do capacity planning, we have to rely on Sangfor's support team for assistance. However, if there were dedicated tools available, we could handle it ourselves and increase efficiency."
"The solution could improve by including backup capabilities."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"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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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 28th 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 StorMagic SvSAN, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. Sunlight report.
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