We performed a comparison between Portworx Enterprise and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Software Defined Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is user-friendly."
"Portworx is a simple solution. It's similar to Pure Storage products. They're all easy to use and install. You need to have a little expertise with containers to use Portworx, but it will be no problem for you if you understand containers."
"The best thing about Portworx is the Stork, they have called the VPS (Volume Replacement Strategy) and they also have topology awareness, and these are the three features I like."
"Portworx virtualizes the aspects of the underlying block storage. That is good because they can also use block storage for their future deployment instead of just NFS."
"A custom IBM script is designed to tackle the storage management challenges within containerized environments, providing crucial data services and features required for enterprise applications."
"I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads."
"The solution is easy to use."
"vSAN that has been most effective in streamlining storage operations. For data recovery alerts, it uses tools like snapshots and vMotion."
"All the features are working great."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"You get the benefit of local storage, but you have the protection of shared storage."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"The features of vSAN allow us to reduce our operational complexity to a large degree."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It would be highly advantageous to include an integrated backup solution within the same license, rather than purchasing backup separately."
"They have not integrated Portworx with Ondat since they are too focused now on Pure Storage APIs and not on users like us."
"I think the vendor could provide more training for new users who may not be familiar with containers."
"I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems."
"The documentation could be better."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"I see room for improvement for vSAN just around general hardware compatibility and expanding that sort of matrix."
"Only the stretched cluster requires a minor improvement."
"Integration could be better."
"This solution is not great for large file shares/object/rich media repository."
"Its installation should be easier, and its price should be cheaper. It would be good for the product if they can include the data locality feature."
"Troubleshooting tools could be improved."
"We would really like them to look at what Nutanix did for day-one/day-two operations deployment: Bringing in the equipment, getting it deployed, getting it setup, and ease of use of one-click for deploying our 30-node solution. With vSAN we had to go into each one individually and set it up."
"I am looking for more of a software-defined storage platform that uses different protocols, such as iSCSI, NFS, and CIS, and maybe also has an object as part of that. They should 100% make it more of a storage-based product where it is not linked just to VMware, and it also has NFS and iSCSI built-in at a scalable level. They should turn it more into a dedicated storage-as-a-service platform instead of just being built into the VMware kernel. Their level one and level two support is not at all good, and it should be improved."
Portworx Enterprise is ranked 2nd in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 6 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Portworx Enterprise is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Portworx Enterprise writes "A solution backed by strong customer support, that is stable and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Portworx Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Spectrum Scale and Rancher Labs, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Portworx Enterprise vs. VMware vSAN report.
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