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"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"The solution has many good features."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"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."
"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."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"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."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 29th in HCI with 2 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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