We performed a comparison between Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is the flexibility of the nodes. Additionally, if there are any critical issues they update us through emails. The issues are taken care of remotely on the system."
"It is easy to install."
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"The solution has high performance."
"Storage is expandable with no extra cost."
"If we decide to expand, vSAN could offer us some flexibility. We are researching ways to set this up from a new data center, which is located somewhere different from the current location right now."
"Very good VCG notification feature."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"The most valuable features are secure IOPs and LAN security."
"vSAN has just one datastore. so customers do not need to think where to put their VMs, how to design the physical disk RAID, the LUN size, the LUN mapping, etc. when they use NetApp/EMC/HDS or other storage systems."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. The price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could be lowered."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."
"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
"The power switch on the hardware is located in a poor location where it can accidentally be pushed. In an update, they should solve this issue so people do not push it accidentally to have their service go down. A possible solution is the switch should be inside."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"The solution doesn't scale."
"We do see weird things crop up every now and again. It will say that a drive gets kicked off even though it's fine, and we have to re-add it."
"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."
"It should be easier to use."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"This product is very expensive."
"They should provide Deduplication and Compression over the hybrid drives."
"It could be more robust. The latency is also an issue for us, and the reliability. I would like it to be faster and a little more flexible."
"VMware vSAN needs to improve its features because other solutions have more advanced features."
Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 12th in HCI with 14 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. VMware vSAN report.
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