NexVisor Hypervisor, a component of Sunlight HyperConverged Edge (HCE), is a Type 1 Hypervisor built from the ground-up to support today’s high performance hardware technologies with almost zero overhead. Legacy hypervisors such as VMware, Xen and KVM impose a 70%+ virtualisation tax for high-performance IO peripherals - such as fast networking and NVMe storage. Sunlight delivers the full performance of these technologies to your workload - maximising your hardware investment. Sunlight can run on your own hardware, in the cloud – including in AWS, and on low-power edge devices. Sunlight makes it simple to migrate VMs from other hypervisors such as VMware, and runs AWS AMIs natively.
Bare metal performance
- Remove the 70%+ virtualisation tax
- 1M IOPS+ per fully-virtualised instance out of the box
- Supports the fastest NVMe and network hardware
Compact footprint
- Highly efficient resource usage perfect for edge use cases
- 500MB memory footprint for entire HCE stack
- 1/100 the footprint of VMware HCE stack
Highly available
- Fast, automated failover of VMs
- Server, rack & availability zone-level HA policies
- Automated cluster controller failover
Easy to implement and manage
Sunlight is easy to install - the complete Sunlight HCE stack can be installed on a bare-metal server in 10 minutes, or on-demand in AWS. AWS AMIs are binary compatible - so can be migrated instantaneously. Sunlight is easy to manage - it includes a full dashboard that allows you to manage all aspects of your Sunlight cluster, including fine-grained control of CPU, storage and network configuration and performance. The dashboard is installed as part of the HCE stack and is highly-available by design across the cluster.
