We performed a comparison between Portworx Enterprise and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Software Defined Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best thing about Portworx is the Stork, they have called the VPS (Volume Replacement Strategy) and they also have topology awareness, and these are the three features I like."
"Portworx virtualizes the aspects of the underlying block storage. That is good because they can also use block storage for their future deployment instead of just NFS."
"A custom IBM script is designed to tackle the storage management challenges within containerized environments, providing crucial data services and features required for enterprise applications."
"Portworx is a simple solution. It's similar to Pure Storage products. They're all easy to use and install. You need to have a little expertise with containers to use Portworx, but it will be no problem for you if you understand containers."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads."
"It is very easy to set up and very easy to use. It is very useful."
"The installation is very easy."
"The ability to have an HA cluster in the absence of a shared storage device or SAN."
"It's stable and scalable. Also, you can virtualize SAN so that you don't have to have a separate storage area network and can have your computer and storage on the same box or computer."
"I think vSAN's stability is good. It's an underlying solution for both on-prem and in the cloud, especially the VMC on AWS stuff too. VMware has been around for a long time, so it's pretty stable."
"High availability is a valuable aspect of this solution."
"It's very scalable. I like that. Adding a node is easy. Adding a disk group is easy."
"It is easy to work with, easy to handle, and easy to manage."
"I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems."
"I think the vendor could provide more training for new users who may not be familiar with containers."
"The documentation could be better."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"They have not integrated Portworx with Ondat since they are too focused now on Pure Storage APIs and not on users like us."
"It would be highly advantageous to include an integrated backup solution within the same license, rather than purchasing backup separately."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"I lose a node in a cluster vSAN, which is also used as a cluster HA. I lose not only the storage part, which is not necessarily serious (depending on the configuration of the vSAN cluster), but on the other hand, I lose also a node of Compute, which can make things complicated quickly."
"The platform’s pricing needs improvement. Additionally, there should be an appliance module included in it."
"The updating process could be easier."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
"The price for the hard drive, for vSAN, is very expensive."
"The ability to access SAN environments with fiber channels (or even NVMe) would be a good addition."
"vSAN itself is a great storage platform, but one of the issues with it is that you have to be fully locked into the VMware package to use it. We're going to be deploying 72 Kubernetes nodes, and we're not going to buy VMware licenses for 72 of them, just so they can access vSAN. That's what we're using the Pure for. Opening it up so you could have vSAN as a data store, use it as a data lake, hit it with an NFS, S3 from outside the VMware ecosystem, would be great."
Portworx Enterprise is ranked 2nd in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 6 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Portworx Enterprise is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Portworx Enterprise writes "A solution backed by strong customer support, that is stable and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Portworx Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Spectrum Scale and Diamanti, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex. See our Portworx Enterprise vs. VMware vSAN report.
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