Sunlight Software-defined Networking (SDN), a component of Sunlight HyperConverged Edge (HCE), embeds fast network switch support in every hypervisor node, enabling fully virtualised network deployments. Sunlight SDN enables the creation of virtual private networks, and bridging and routing between them. In addition Sunlight SDN allows you extend your AWS elastic network to your edge and on-prem Sunliight clusters. Sunlight SDN allows you to take advantage of the full available bandwidth of multiple 10/100Gb NICs with NIC teaming for the highest workload performance.
Create virtual private networks
- Create unlimited virtual private networks
- Enable access to direct attached network segments directly from VMs
- Enable multi-tenancy and separate security zones
True NIC teaming
- Aggregates multiple NICs into a single virtual interface
- Take advantage of full network bandwidth capability of the physical hardware
- Virtual interface deals with physical NIC failure gracefully
Integrates with AWS elastic networking
- Take advantage of AWS elastic network architecture
- Map elastic IPs to Sunlight instances
- Extend AWS elastic network interfaces securely to on-premise/edge clusters
Easy to implement and manage
Sunlight HyperConverged Edge is easy to install - the complete Sunlight HCE stack can be installed on bare-metal servers in minutes. Sunlight is easy to manage - it includes the Edge Stack Console 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.
