VMware vSAN Reviews

There are multiple locations where we have VMware vSAN. We have configured the cluster according to our needs: development, production, and QA environments. Our infrastructure runs on these particular clusters.

VMware vSAN is a good hyper-converged solution in the market right now where we can leverage VMware vSphere features. There are multiple features like HA, vMotion, and storage vMotion. The Distributed Switch is again a good feature to deliverables. Hot add features are available by default in vSphere, allowing us to immediately increase memory, CPU, and hard drive without any downtime.

I'm running an application that's running under a virtual machine on vSAN. That vSAN environment is only for this specific application. 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 solution is deployed on-prem.

There are seven users in my organization. They are all in IT roles.

There could be more features with the automatic backup.

We primarily use vSAN for cloud automation, so we provide test workloads for specific test use cases for customers who want to do software testing. In these specific cases, we also use vSAN because it gives us flexibility from a profile perspective on how we roll out specific workloads and specific test scenarios, making it easier for us to actually deploy things in comparison to legacy storage platforms.

vSAN improved our organization by allowing us to deploy scenarios or workloads more easily because, from a vSAN perspective, we don't need to reconfigure underlying storage or anything else. We can actually adjust for each individual machine and individual workload characteristics. We don't have to deal with different types of disk shelves, rate groups, etc. We can directly take that off.

We use it as part of our office infrastructure. It helps in managing our end-user solutions.

Noise people with no specific specialization can manage the system. It's designed to be user-friendly. It offers role-based access and administration, which is much easier. It has built-in integration, ensuring a structured and resilient solution with high fault tolerance. Tasks are more efficient and publish updates quickly to address vulnerabilities.

I think performance and cost are the most valuable features of VMware Virtual SAN. We're stringing up an entire virtualization environment for VDI and RDSH through Horizon View. When we compared the cost of a traditional SAN versus VSAN, that’s what actually made it all possible for us. We're actually able to deploy Virtual SAN for a fraction, like 1/5th, of the cost, of what we're paying for our SAN. It was crazy. The reduced cost made it very palatable and then the actual performance of it made it even that much more functional.

I'm from the cloud virtualization side of things, so consolidating the data allowed us to set up the VSAN instead of a traditional SAN, and allowed us to do faster deployments without having to interact with as many teams. It's simplified our deployment methodology a fair amount, and it gave us the better performance we're looking for from a SAN perspective.

Beyond that, it didn't change a lot how we function, necessarily, but it gave us a better tool, or a tool specific for our use case, or something that opens up the door for more. I think that the product itself is going to be paramount in other expansions and other aspects of the corporation. We'll likely keep expanding it into general computing and servers across the globe. It might help with some of the other deployments, cache centers and data centers, so that we don't necessarily have to buy SAN. It gives us the performance for the cost that really makes it attractive overall. Beyond that, I don't know.

We use the solution for our private cloud environment. We are hosting our internal applications.

Integration is one of the best things. The product’s ecosystem is better than Nutanix’s. It is one of the best things I have seen in VMware vSAN. The interface is easy to use. Compared to legacy systems, the tool is easy to implement. Replication and securing data is easier in vSAN. The main objective of vSAN is scalability. The product is highly available within our 3-node cluster.

I use the solution in my company for application servers where we don't have a block storage array. My company does not use the newer architecture since we prefer to use the older architecture or OSA.

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the storage policies that are set and the fact that it serves as a tool that you can retire if you want. The product offers a single disk group, making it possible for the computer and storage, which is a really good feature.

We are providing virtual machines for our niche area of accounting firms. For virtualization, we are using VMware vSphere, and for storing these virtualizations, we are using VMware vSAN. 

We have co-located servers in different data centers. That's where we have installed the VMware vSAN for our use.

vSAN is software-defined networking. The advantage of vSAN is that if one of the servers goes down, nothing happens. In traditional SAN, if the SAN goes down, everything goes down, and your business will come to a halt. That's why we decided to go for vSAN because you have a number of servers in vSAN. 

Each server participates in creating the virtual SAN. In case one server goes down, the other servers continue to work, and the workload gets realigned to the nodes that are up. Your work doesn't get interrupted. That's why a lot of companies are moving to software-defined storage, where the storage is created through software. vSAN is also software-defined storage.