We performed a comparison between Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and Sunlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"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."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"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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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI while Sunlight is ranked 28th in HCI with 2 reviews. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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