We performed a comparison between StarWind Virtual SAN and Sunlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"It allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"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."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"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."
StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 28th in HCI with 2 reviews. StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN. See our StarWind Virtual SAN vs. Sunlight report.
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