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Levente Svigelj
Agnostic, flexible, and offers dynamic workload management
Hypervisor offers agnosticism for flexibility. My company could seamlessly transition workloads on VMware without worrying about storage... Read more →
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RajeshKANUMURY
Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support
If I had to use VMware or Nutanix, the same application would take three nodes and provide 400,000 IOPS, or input-output operations. But with... Read more →
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  • "The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great."
  • "We are happy with the price."
  • "The license is reusable. We can always rebuild it and apply the license. Then, boom, we get new servers, apply the license, and we're back up and running."
  • "The pricing is fine for the work that it does."
  • "When we did all the analysis for StarWind, it was approximately 20 percent less than any of the other solutions that we looked at."
  • "The scalability limitation for us is its licensing. At some point in the fairly near future, we will probably have to upgrade our license so we can store eight terabytes instead of four. We are currently at four terabytes, but we're starting to knock on the door of that capacity."
  • "The pricing is excellent. It will run on anything. You don't have to buy a $100,000 server, with hardware you don't need. You just pay for the license and you're good to go."
  • "The licensing is a bit weird. If you license the standard version of StarWind, it allows you four terabytes. Then, they have a pro version, but with the pro version, the only difference is it doubles the terabytes to eight."

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  • "There is an operating cost for the VDIs, which is an additional cost. However, the licensing fee is half that of VMware or Nutanix."

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    What do you like most about Sunlight?
    Top Answer:The performance and small footprint of this solution are its most valuable features. I am able to obtain and use more… more »
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    What needs improvement with Sunlight?
    Top Answer:It lacks the bells and whistles that are typically associated with Amazon Services or Nutanix. It is still a work in… more »
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    Top Answer:We offer virtual desktops. We use our own proprietary technology using Sunlight. Sunlight works very well for people who… more »
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    Overview

    StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.

    High-density appliance
    Cohesity C6000 Series is a dense hybrid hyperconverged storage appliance that supports up to 168TB per appliance. Ideal for data protection, backup target, and file and object use cases, the C6000 augments the current C4000 Series platform with extended capacity and optimization for NAS deployments at scale.

    The Cohesity DataPlatform runs on all C6000 Series models to deliver unlimited scalability, single UI, leading deduplication, software-based encryption, enterprise search, and powerful cybersecurity.

    Sunlight is a complete HCI stack that can be deployed on-premise on standard data center hardware, in AWS and on resource-constrained far-edge devices.

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    Cohesity C6000 Series is ranked 32nd in HCI while Sunlight is ranked 29th in HCI with 2 reviews. Cohesity C6000 Series is rated 0.0, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". Cohesity C6000 Series is most compared with , whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.

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