"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"vSAN is very integrated."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is stable."
"We can also create test cases. We can even throttle down performance or release more performance. So, we can run more precise test scenarios."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is you do not have to use additional hardware for storage. The operation of VMware vSAN does not take a lot of effort. If you have VMware technology on your site, then it's easy for the operational support of the system."
"It is very well known in the industry, and there are a lot of technical resources around it. This is a big thing for me because, at the end of the day, when you implement it, you need to support it."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"We have found the solution to be very scalable."
"The most valuable feature for our customers is vMotion. It allows them to shut down virtual machines and migrate them to others servers."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"The solution could maybe improve failure protection."
"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."
"It can be very expensive."
"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."
"I would like to see more support for applications. I think currently it only supports applications between two vSAN clusters."
"I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment."
"The technical support, it's not satisfactory. Whenever we raise a ticket it takes a lot of time to have an engineer get involved sometimes, or we receive a less experienced engineer. We then have to repeat the situation to the next engineer which all takes time."
"Hardware load balancing is available on the enterprise version of the solution, however, it's extremely expensive and therefore out of our budget."
Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 7th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 1 review while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 87 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 9.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "A great solution for fostering the natural expansion of the traditional hybrid culture". 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 Acropolis AOS, DataCore SANsymphony and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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