VMware vSAN

VMware vSAN

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
VMware vSAN	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	VMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides a simple path to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi cloud. VMware vSAN is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.	N/A

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	VMware vSAN
Considered Both Products	VMware by Broadcom Vandana Yadav Presales Executive in Information Technology at Corporate Infotech Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware vSAN Upgrades and maintenance are little difficult in other solutions available. Also, VMware vSAN offers a vast range of features optimizing the CPU and memory to great extent resulting in faster performance . Performance is enhanced with VMware vSAN and support of vSAN is also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSAN VMWare stand out compared to all the products. However, it is worthwhile mentioning the following products can be used to achive similar results. Hitachi Virtual Storage Systems Nutanix Cloud Infrastrucure. In case if we are using Nuatinux at the Hypervisor level then it … Incentivized Helpful? Edwin Blom System Administrator OT in Engineering at KEMA BV (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware vSAN We have done the POC with both products to understand the differences, similarities and to select the best option for our purpose. At this moment in time both products still have their own pro's and con's. At this time decision was taken to work with both products, in the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSAN I came from environments where we used hosts and a san. The Sans are always very expensive and to add additional resources to the san it's in large amounts. Most of the environments only had a couple of hosts so downtime or outages were always a concern. Being able to spread … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSAN Nutanix was the first hyper-converged solution, but it requires its own hardware. hyperflex looks promising, but it's also only working on cisco hardware. in both cases the costs are much higher, compared to building a custom vSAN solution on certified hardware, leveraging … Incentivized Helpful? Md Tanjil Islam Bappi Senior Manager in Information Technology at Omega Exim limited (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware vSAN Our VMware solution is built in-house for the organization's private application, we don't want to put our data on cloud premises. Also, vSAN is a cost-effective solution for our environment. We have done the POC with both products to understand the Flexibility, Management, and … Incentivized Helpful? Kike Maldonado Project Manager in Information Technology at Vueling (Airlines/Aviation, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware vSAN Currently[,] we are testing both technologies in a time frame so we [still know] after some years which one is the best, according to our loads' needs. We had VMware before moving to vSAN, one [of] many [reasons] to move to vSAN is the opportunity to make the jump in a … Incentivized Helpful? Chandrakandh Mouleeswaran Sr. Technical Consultant in Information Technology at Lenovo (Computer Hardware, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware vSAN Nutanix and VMware are comparable solutions but VMware ESXi is a leading hypervisor. Nutanix also support ESXi and AHV and other hypervisors. We support both Nutanix and VMware and it is customer choice to choose considering many other things like software, channels and … Incentivized Helpful? Dmitry Malafeev Senior Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Drake Australia (Consumer Services, 201-500 employees) Chose VMware vSAN vSAN was handy to do our testing. It helps to provide plenty of storage performance with a simple interface. It is easy to configure and works just great. VMware software, in general, provides the best performance and reliability for the virtualization platform. It's always … Incentivized Helpful? Brent Runyan IT Systems Architect in Information Technology at BYU - College of Life Sciences (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware vSAN We used HPE SimpliVity in the past. HPE SimpliVity provided a similar functionality, but it required a virtual controller VM on each host which consumed CPU, RAM, and Storage. Upgrades and maintenance on the HPE SimpliVity nodes was more difficult because the controller VMs … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware vSAN VMware vSAN is the only hyper-convergence product we have used, but it replaced multiple dedicated Nimble storage arrays. Nimble had a vCenter plugin which made it much easier to use, but VMware vSAN is baked right into the vCenter. vSAN also really doesn't require much if … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Garrison Customer Engineer in Sales at ATTO Technology Inc (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware vSAN We only tested vSAN. Incentivized Helpful? Philip Sellers Platform Engineering Manager in Information Technology at AmWINS Group (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware vSAN vSAN is far more integrated than any other SDS solution running on vSphere. It is also a simpler deployment and management model. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	VMware vSAN
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (17 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (5 ratings)