We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Sunlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"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."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"This is a great product."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"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."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 28th in HCI while Sunlight is ranked 29th in HCI with 2 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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