We performed a comparison between Azure Stack HCI and Sunlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"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."
"The solution has the latest processor."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to manage VMs."
"In my hybrid cloud setup, there are three features I've found very efficient. The first is software-defined networking. Similar to Azure where you create virtual networks and software load balancing, Azure Stack HCI lets you configure them with a drag-and-drop experience on the on-premises cluster. That's one of the good feature."
"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."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"There are a lot of areas for improvement. Since I've been working very closely with this product, there are many areas, especially in software-defined networking. We had to improve multiple areas because we depended on the service fabric cluster to manage the software-defined network. That means we're already running a hypervisor inside a VM, and we're managing the control plane of the software-defined network. That's another cluster. So, multiple layers make the complexity more. So, from an operational perspective, it's very difficult to manage."
"We faced multiple problems with the product’s stability."
"The product's initial setup phase can be a bit complex, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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."
Azure Stack HCI is ranked 17th in HCI with 3 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 28th in HCI with 2 reviews. Azure Stack HCI is rated 8.4, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Stack HCI writes "Performs well, provides good features, and has the latest processor". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". Azure Stack HCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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