We performed a comparison between SteelFusion 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 configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"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."
"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."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
"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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SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI while Sunlight is ranked 28th in HCI with 2 reviews. SteelFusion is rated 9.0, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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