We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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."StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"I am impressed with the product's firewall and virtualization."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"It is a smart solution for virtualization"
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"I would rate the user-friendliness an eight out of ten."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten... Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"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."
"One question that has come up frequently in the last week is whether or not the renewal cost for Sangfor's HCI solution is too high."
"I would want the product to include Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which can help to easily retrieve the data."
"It can have more compatibility and new features. I would also like to see better performance. Some of the other HCI solutions already provide the SSD and flash storage and much higher Intel processors. Sangfor HCI can improve on that."
"Sangfor does not support a SAS configuration, which is something that we would like."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"It should have object storage. It already has network virtualization and micro-segmentation, but it is missing object storage. It does not have object storage. vSAN also does not have object storage, but Nutanix has object storage, and it is natively integrated into its HCI. So, if you pay for the object storage license, you have that module pre-built."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"Lacks network support."
"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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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 27th in HCI with 2 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and OpenNebula, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. Sunlight report.
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