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Stable solution with an easy initial setup process
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  • "With the data center licensing and everything that is connected to that, this solution is relatively costly."
  • "Cost-wise the product is one of the more affordable within the category of products."

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    How does VMware vSAN compare with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?
    Top Answer:We found VMware’s vSAN was easy to set up, configure, and manage compared to other solutions we considered. It is best suited for small- to medium-sized organizations. It is easy to create load… more »
    What do you like most about Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?
    Top Answer:Its technical support is excellent.
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    What needs improvement with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?
    Top Answer:It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution. In comparison, the process is easy for VMware and VSAN.
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    MS Storage Spaces Direct
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    Overview

    Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features like caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovation like RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivaled efficiency and performance.

    Providing IT organizations with a simple to manage, agile infrastructure with increased speed of delivery, durability and reliability. Accelerate innovation, reduce costs and alleviate proprietary hardware lock-in by transforming your enterprise storage infrastructure with a truly open, and unified intelligent software-defined storage solution. Let SUSE and our partners provide you with the most flexible enterprise-grade storage solution.

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    Acuutech, Quest Technology Management, Bradley, Mead & Hunt
    Day & Zimmermann, Cisco, CEMEX, L.B. Foster, Adient, Istanbul Technical University, 7Pixel, University of Maine System, Guerbet
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    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider8%
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    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews while SUSE Enterprise Storage is ranked 28th in Software Defined Storage (SDS). Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6, while SUSE Enterprise Storage is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". On the other hand, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas SUSE Enterprise Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage.

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