Sunlight NexVisor is a lightweight, Type 1 hypervisor engineered to deliver near bare-metal performance with minimal overhead. As a core component of Sunlight's HyperConverged Edge platform, NexVisor is optimized for high-performance hardware technologies, enabling efficient virtualization of data-intensive applications across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Bare-Metal Performance: Eliminates the typical virtualization overhead, achieving over 1 million IOPS per fully virtualized instance and supporting the fastest NVMe storage and network hardware.
- Compact Footprint: With a memory footprint of just 500MB for the entire HCE stack, NexVisor is ideal for resource-constrained edge deployments, being 1/100th the size of traditional hyperconverged infrastructure stacks.
- High Availability: Offers rapid, automated failover of virtual machines, with server, rack, and availability zone-level high availability policies, ensuring continuous operation of critical applications.
- Ease of Implementation and Management: The Sunlight HCE stack can be installed on bare-metal servers within minutes. The integrated Edge Stack Console provides comprehensive management of clusters, including detailed control over CPU, storage, and network configurations.
- Security: Designed with security at its core, NexVisor includes hardened components and fine-grained CPU and memory allocation to guard against exploits, along with control over I/O interfaces to separate content and network traffic.
Primary Value and User Solutions:
Sunlight NexVisor addresses the challenges of running high-performance, data-intensive applications by providing a hyperconverged infrastructure that delivers exceptional performance with minimal resource consumption. It enables organizations to maximize hardware investments, reduce infrastructure costs by up to 70%, and efficiently deploy applications in edge environments where space, power, and cooling are limited. By supporting both x86 and Arm architectures, NexVisor offers flexibility and scalability, making it suitable for a wide range of industries, including AI, big data, analytics, and rendering.