We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Sunlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"It is 100% stable. It's the most stable infrastructure that we have."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be applied at any scale."
"It offers very useful data protection."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"Its low maintenance is a key feature. It is easy to install, upgrade, and scale by adding more blocks."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"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."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"The product requires a lot of resources."
"If they can simplify the software slightly for the installation, that would make all the difference."
"I would like to see official compatibility with Red Hat in the future."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"It would be fantastic if there was a built-in layer, in Nutanix, that acted like a cloud interface. So far, we need to integrate a cloud interface on top of Nutanix for billing the usage for specific customers' domains. It would be great if a cloud gateway was built-in, inside Nutanix."
"Usually, there are separate administration teams that take care of servers, but in our organization, servers are usually looked after by the application owner. However, the application owners cannot reinstall the software, OS, and other things. That only aligns with the role of the HCI administrator. If these rights can be provided, it will be very easy."
"Make it easier to manage."
"I would like to see more Kubernetes and container-related workflows and multiple cloud-partner management. I would also like to see how they will synergize all these AI/ML functionalities that are available on other platforms."
"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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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews while Sunlight is ranked 28th in HCI with 2 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Sunlight is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex, whereas Sunlight is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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