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 StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The implementation is simple, it was very straightforward. It took us approximately three weeks because it was installed in four locations."
"The ease of use is great."
"The technical support is good. We are always thankful for the technical support from VMware. They are very supportive when we have a technical problem."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"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"
"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."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"The performance of VMware vSAN is very good."
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"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."
"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."
"The monitoring feature in VMware vSAN could be better."
"One area that could be improved is the management feature."
"A vSAN cluster must have compression and deduplication to be an all-flash array, but it's not supported with a hybrid array. Deduplication and compression work better with an all-flash array, so I think that VMware should give customers the option to activate and support this feature for hybrid arrays. Other products like Nutanix support this."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"Based on my testing, I would like to expand deduplication to include hybrid deployments and not just for all-flash deployments."
"Lacks sufficient storage terabytes."
"We are facing some problems with updates with the VMware vSAN. When we upgraded from version 6.5 to 7, we have been faced with many problems. They have been deploying many hotfixes for this version, and they need to continue to improve this version."
Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 52 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 NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, 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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