"A very flexible solution."
"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."
"The ease of use is great."
"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 most valuable features are Erasure Coding, Deduplication and Compression, and the advancement in stretching regarding replication."
"We have found the solution to be very scalable."
"Its ease of use is most valuable. It is easy to configure, and there is a unified interface, which makes things slightly easier."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"User interface could be improved."
"This is quite an expensive solution."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"We would like to see even more storage capacity."
"While I like the replication and compression features, there is a problem with them running too slowly."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"Based on my testing, I would like to expand deduplication to include hybrid deployments and not just for all-flash deployments."
"They can improve the manageability of the solution to make it more simple. It is not that complicated, but it will be good if they can make it more simple."
"We plan to switch products since the hardware nowadays is a little bit outdated and we need to scale up a bit."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 16th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 87 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 7.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Flexible with numerous applications and good scalability; UI could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Dell Unity XT and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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