We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Sunlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Best features are around data locality, compression, and deduplication."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"The hyperconvergence service, as well as the DR solution, are game-changers for Nutanix."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"Technical support is okay."
"The cloud features in-site offering, which I found to be very interesting."
"Their Google operating system is more mature, so their results are much better."
"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 web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"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."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"They could improve the graphical user interface."
"To have internal stability, we needed to network the solution ourselves. Performance depends on the application. Performance could be the lack of IOPS, memory and CPU and configuration issues."
"While the customer support is truly incredible, for Spanish speakers it would be appropriate to have support in their native language to further improve problem-solving conditions."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"I'm not very technical, so I don't know if there are any features that are really lacking. Our customers seem pleased with it, and I haven't heard of any downsides."
"In the next release of this solution, they could improve by being more competitive with VMware. I would like all third-party solutions to work well with Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"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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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 28th in HCI with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, VMware vSphere, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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