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"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The most useful feature is the solution's automation in terms of how we are able to spin up a certain workload in real-time when we are doing R&D."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The size of the hardware is what we need because it is very good for small configurations."
"I like that you can add other types of services."
"The consolidation of the management in one control point is the most valuable. The whole infrastructure management is consolidated in just one console point. The documentation is also pretty good."
"Both the scalability and stability of this solution are excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to continue our business needs and have higher visibility. It has definitely increased our business productivity levels."
"This product has very good performance when it comes to virtualization storage and works well with solutions such as SAP HANA, Exadata, Hadoop, and Big Data Analytics."
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"It is simple to manage, very easy to implement and troubleshoot in case of any failures."
"Storage is expandable with no extra cost."
"The ability to have an HA cluster in the absence of a shared storage device or SAN."
"It's very scalable. I like that. Adding a node is easy. Adding a disk group is easy."
"We didn't only choose vSAN; we chose VMware because of SR-IOV, which is more on the hypervisor level and not on the vSAN storage. It's part of the whole system."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is very difficult to operate. You have to have a deep understanding of the technical details of the infrastructure to implement it. When you compare it with VMware, it is totally different because the graphical user interface is not that easy to understand. It is not intuitive. To use it, you have to read a lot of documentation and even understand what is going on behind the solution. It is not for someone who has a little bit of knowledge. Currently, it is too complex. I need something that is easy to implement. It should have a basic configuration as well as a complex configuration."
"The cloud deployment could be improved."
"The licensing policy needs to be improved. They have a licensing policy based on the number of CPU sockets. Nowadays what has happened is that the license they are trying to move is based on the number of CPU cores. With the advancement in technology there are now more cores in a single CPU. It's been very challenging in terms of managing the license around everything. Today we have a processor with 24 and 32 cores on the same physical CPU."
"It should be more user-friendly, in my opinion."
"This product is not so stable. Maybe it is just not mature enough in its development."
"The main issue is the initial investment. It is an expensive product, and it should be cheaper. It should also be easier to use and manage. The professional service for this solution is quite complex and expensive."
"There is a lot that VMware could improve from a marketing perspective. The cloud is still new for many people, so extending storage should be effortless. It shouldn't be so complicated to extend the storage so workloads can access it no matter where they go."
"The solution must provide better customization."
"We are facing some problems with updates with the VMware vSAN. When we upgraded from version 6.5 to 7, we have been faced with many problems. They have been deploying many hotfixes for this version, and they need to continue to improve this version."
"The platform's cost affects the business. This particular area needs improvement."
"If we have some complicated issues, you have to use the command lines interface. Not everything is possible to be fixed in the GUI. This is a drawback, that some things have to be fixed via command-line interface and should be able to be done in the GUI."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
"There are certain shortcomings in the stability of the product where improvements are required."
"This solution would benefit from better collaboration with Cisco for driver updates."
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Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is ranked 22nd in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure writes "Comes in a small, compact model that does not have any separate management but it is not so stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is most compared with VxRail, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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