Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs Sunlight comparison

Dell Technologies and Sunlight.io are both solutions in the HCI category. Dell Technologies is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.7, while Sunlight.io is ranked #30. Dell Technologies holds a 2.6% mindshare in HCI, compared to Sunlight.io’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sunlight.io users who would recommend it.

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and Sunlight compete in the hyperconverged infrastructure market. Sunlight appears to have an advantage with its robust performance features, despite Dell's attractive pricing and support.

Features: Dell vSAN Ready Nodes offer seamless integration with VMware environments, comprehensive support, and scalability. Sunlight is recognized for its lightweight architecture, high performance, and efficient resource utilization, with a notable ability to deliver near-native performance levels.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell vSAN Ready Nodes are easy to deploy within VMware ecosystems with strong customer support. Sunlight ensures a hyper-efficient deployment model with minimal overhead, performing well on bare-metal environments, and is known for its speed and ease in resource-intensive settings.

Pricing and ROI: Dell vSAN Ready Nodes have a structured pricing model suited for VMware-integrated businesses, offering good ROI through reduced complexity. Sunlight may involve higher initial costs but yields significant ROI via higher performance and lower operational expenses, delivering substantial long-term productivity gains.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell vSAN Ready Nodes

Ranking in HCI

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Sunlight

Ranking in HCI

30th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the HCI category, the mindshare of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is 2.6%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sunlight is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Saleh Khalid

college student at Imam University

Efficient consolidated storage and plug-and-play with room for more flexibility

The initial setup was straightforward. However, there is a need for detailed steps, and missing any step could result in the solution not working. The whole environment, including designing and preparation, took around two weeks, and the deployments, including shipping of the servers and everything, took another two weeks to make it production ready. It was around four weeks in total from starting design to being production ready.

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RajeshKANUMURY

Chief Executive Officer at GniYes Inc.

Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support

Sunlight is a scalable solution. It supports on-premises and distributed deployments, as well as public deployments. It has a single pane of management so I can manage all of my VM installations in a distributed manner. It also has a footprint, that allows me to operate on Edge. If for example, you have a retail shop with 2,000 locations and they use a networked point of sale system, or if you are Chipotle and they have so many locations and they have to use a backend system at each location. At the moment, these are all standalone systems that operate with very little connection to the central. We could, however, connect and create a network using Sunlight. We can virtualize and run with Edge thanks to Sunlight. This allows us to operate and obtain high-end computing on Edge for retail. Sunlight is a startup. I am not sure how many users they have, but we have been using it constantly and using the technology to bring in customers.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."

"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."

"I rate vSAN ReadyNodes as a nine out of ten."

"The most beneficial feature is the consolidated storage which is the vSAN. It handles most of the heavy work."

"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."

"You don't have to spend much time evaluating the hardware. It can be deployed in a short time. The tool is also easy to upgrade."

"The product is useful for DR and other things."

"The cost is higher compared to non-Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, but when compared with external storage solutions, there are significant benefits."

Cons

"We have experienced some issues with performance."

"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."

"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes doesn't perform as well as IBM. There are significant limitations, especially with scalability and flexibility over time. For example, adding drives can be problematic if the specific drives aren't available with older nodes that are four or five years old. Unlike IBM, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes isn't as flexible and doesn't scale easily. Additionally, while present, features like deduplication and compression don't perform as efficiently as they do on IBM. Our experience shows that the tool isn't as robust or flexible as advertised."

"Currently, it's like a black box that only Dell technical support knows how to handle."

"Upgrades are carried out manually."

"Sometimes we experience performance issues and disk failure issues frequently. Sometimes it impacts another disk group situation."

"When customers want to expand capacity but all the drive slots are full, they are forced to buy new servers or nodes which adds more costs with licenses and hardware, rendering it less scalable than other storage setups."

"The solution doesn't scale."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is more expensive than a traditional array. The prices are skyrocketing."

"My company makes yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the solution. The solution is expensive."

"There is a problem, which is the lack of an integrated price structure."

"We have a four-year contract to use Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes."

"Comparing the price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes to other solutions it is not expensive."

"The price of the solution was reasonable."

"The tool's pricing is competitive compared to others. The tool's licensing is based on annual subscriptions."

"There is an operating cost for the VDIs, which is an additional cost. However, the licensing fee is half that of VMware or Nutanix."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dell vSAN Ready Nodes?

If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell vSAN Ready Nodes?

There is no specific licensing model for vSAN ReadyNodes as it is linked with Broadcom VMware's solutions rather than Dell's. As a group under Comcast, we receive very good pricing from Dell due to...

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What needs improvement with Dell vSAN Ready Nodes?

There are no specific issues, but in some cases we have seen hardware failures and performance issues where performance suddenly deteriorates.

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Overview

Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are pre-configured building blocks that reduce deployment
risks with certified configurations, improve storage efficiency by up to 50%1
, and can help
you build or scale your vSAN cluster faster.14 Whether you're just getting started, and/or
expanding your existing VMware environment, Dell EMC is here for you every step of the
way with consulting, education, deployment and support services for the entire solution.

Dell Technologies

Sunlight is a complete HCI stack that can be deployed on-premise on standard data center hardware, in AWS and on resource-constrained far-edge devices.

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