We performed a comparison between NetApp HCI [EOL] and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The ability to size the available space in a way that matches our company's needs is most valuable. For instance, you can decide if you want 80/20, 70/30, or 60/40 space. Redundancy depends on your needs without changing the appliance. You just add space and decide the percentage of space that you need free and the percentage of space that you need for backup. It is all automatic, and you don't have to do anything. You just add space, and the system automatically configures itself with the chosen option."
"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."
"It is scalable, and NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE) makes its deployment easier."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"The most valuable feature is the fast performance."
"The solution is quite stable."
"We had very good access to technical support."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is stable."
"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."
"It's stable and scalable. Also, you can virtualize SAN so that you don't have to have a separate storage area network and can have your computer and storage on the same box or computer."
"I like the tolerance of VMware vSAN."
"The scalability is very good and the solution is stable and reliable."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The administration side of it needs to be improved. We expect an easier interface and a single upgrade for updating the infrastructure."
"Its stability is very bad. It has been crashing continuously. In one year, we got three crashes, which is unbelievable for an appliance that is guaranteed for 10 years without any crash."
"At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
"If the support could be provided more quickly, it would be very helpful."
"Lacks sufficient storage terabytes."
"This product is very expensive."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"In a future release, they can bring in the object storage capabilities to this solution. Currently, there is not any compatibility."
"I think it needs to be more cost-effective. I would also say that even though the capacity is good, there is also room for improvement there. Also, they could improve the security of the system."
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NetApp HCI [EOL] is ranked 18th in HCI with 4 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 80 reviews. NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 6.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Crashes continuously, complex to deploy, and bad after-sales support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, HPE SimpliVity and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our NetApp HCI [EOL] vs. VMware vSAN report.
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