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."The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."
"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."
"The ease of use is great."
"This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"Stretched Cluster is one of the big features that we use across multiple data centers."
"VMware has been around for a long time are are doing a decent job at catching up with the latest technologies i.e. bringing in kubernetes and containerization. Overall, this is a great tool for virtualization."
"When we do to do more scaled load testing, we can run more dense workloads and still have the same results across all specific nodes"
"Its ease of use is most valuable. It is easy to configure, and there is a unified interface, which makes things slightly easier."
"VMware vSAN is easy to implement in a VMware environment and it is not expensive."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The documentation could be better."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"They require more media visibility."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"The solution doesn't scale."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"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 deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having better integration with other vendors and the storage is limited, I prefer it to the traditional storage."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
"The integration could be improved. I would like to see integration with other platforms."
"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."
"It could be cheaper."
"The big thing is pricing, and the rest of it is mostly good. From a scalability point of view, scaling the storage from network or compute should be easier. It is again all around the cost, and it would be good if it was easier to scale your storage separately from your compute."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"VMware vSAN needs to improve its features because other solutions have more advanced features."
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Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 12th in HCI with 6 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 80 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Uncomplicated process for adding nodes to create storage space". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, HPE Hyper Converged, HPE SimpliVity and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. VMware vSAN report.
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