Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series vs Sunlight comparison

Hitachi Vantara and Sunlight.io are both solutions in the HCI category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #23, while Sunlight.io is ranked #30. Hitachi Vantara holds a 0.4% mindshare in HCI, compared to Sunlight.io’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sunlight.io users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and Sunlight provide efficient computing solutions. Hitachi stands out with its appealing pricing and strong support, whereas Sunlight leads in feature richness, justifying its price.

Features: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series includes integrated data protection, scalability, and strong performance optimization. Sunlight focuses on lightweight architecture, high-performance edge computing, and hybrid cloud integration. Sunlight's adaptability for edge environments makes it suitable for specific deployment needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Hitachi offers straightforward deployment and comprehensive customer service, making setup seamless. Sunlight offers flexibility but with a slightly more complex deployment, supported by efficient customer service. Hitachi benefits those seeking quick operational capability.

Pricing and ROI: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series offers a cost-effective setup with notable ROI due to scalability and support structure. Sunlight incurs a higher initial setup cost but provides good ROI with resource efficiency and edge performance. Hitachi's pricing is more attractive, while Sunlight offers higher ROI potential in specific cases.

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Hitachi Unified Compute Pla...

Ranking in HCI

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

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Sunlight

Ranking in HCI

30th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the HCI category, the mindshare of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is 0.4%, down from 0.6% 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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it_user583272

Presales Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Storage Virtualization is the most mature in the market, but other brands have more features

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.

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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

"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."

"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."

"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."

Cons

"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 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."

"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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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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Computer Software Company

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Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Pharma/Biotech Company

10%

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Also Known As

HDS Unified Compute Platform, Hitachi UCP, Hitachi UCP Select

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Overview

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) is the company's product for converged infrastructure (CI), combining resources server, storage, networking, virtualization, and software management.

Hitachi Vantara

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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