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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Sunlight is the #30 ranked solution in HCI Software. PeerSpot users give Sunlight an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Sunlight is most commonly compared to VMware vSAN:
Sunlight vs VMware vSAN.
As of August 2025, the mindshare of Sunlight in the HCI category
stands at 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
HCI Market Share Distribution
Product
Market Share (%)
Sunlight
0.2%
VxRail
17.0%
VMware vSAN
14.4%
Other
68.4%
HCI
Key learnings from peers
Valuable Features
"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."
Room for Improvement
"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
"There is an operating cost for the VDIs, which is an additional cost. However, the licensing fee is half that of VMware or Nutanix."
These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.
