We performed a comparison between Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Nutanix, StarWind, DataCore and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"Very easy to implement in any existing environment."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSAN are that it receives updates frequently, has good compression, optimized storage, and they provide webinars on what is new. Additionally, the integration with third-party products is good and it is easy to manage."
"VMware vSAN is easy to implement in a VMware environment and it is not expensive."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"The technical support is good."
"We had very good access to technical support."
"High availability is a valuable aspect of this solution."
"I think vSAN's stability is good. It's an underlying solution for both on-prem and in the cloud, especially the VMC on AWS stuff too. VMware has been around for a long time, so it's pretty stable."
"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
"The integration could be improved. I would like to see integration with other platforms."
"On the DevOps side, if there could be more automation it would be more helpful."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"When designing the implementation for vSAN, I have noticed that it requires a minimum of six nodes, and this creates a problem when it comes to maintenance. If, out of the six nodes, I put one node in maintenance mode, then vSAN does not create other VM components."
"Hardware load balancing is available on the enterprise version of the solution, however, it's extremely expensive and therefore out of our budget."
"We plan to switch products since the hardware nowadays is a little bit outdated and we need to scale up a bit."
"Its price could be improved. It is too expensive for our clients."
"The monitoring feature in VMware vSAN could be better."
Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 10th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 78 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable software storage solution that offers performance, reliability, and affordability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), DataCore SANsymphony and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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