We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Sunlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"The backup feature is valuable, and replication is also valuable. It is very quick and easy to use."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"Technical support is perfect. They explain to us the solution in a very clear and simple way. When we call them, they know the right answer and get the right person automatically."
"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."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"This is a great product."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"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 SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 28th in HCI with 2 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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