"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"Technical support is good."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"Technical support is good."
"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."
"I like the tolerance of VMware vSAN."
"The ease of use is great."
"Storage is expandable with no extra cost."
"It is user-friendly, and its performance is good."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"The file functionality could be better."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"Automation could be simplified."
"VMware vSAN needs to improve its features because other solutions have more advanced features."
"Because of virtual storage, the system reaches reserve storage for its functions. It also consumes a certain amount of storage, which then results in the creation of a fault tolerance for the system. All of this adds to a lot of capacity being consumed in terms of storage for each drive for vSan. I find this to be one drawback of using vSan."
"Troubleshooting tools could be improved."
"Upgradability could be a bit easier sometimes. We are now where vSAN can be updated without ESXi, but there is still enough dependency. So that would be good if that actually would uncoupled even more."
"The integration could be improved. I would like to see integration with other platforms."
"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."
"The monitoring feature in VMware vSAN could be better."
"The solution could be improved by having more filtered and multiple view volumes instead of a single view."
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Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 38 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 87 reviews. Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Provides protection against ransomware threats with immutable snapshots, and it is well known for its scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), IBM FlashSystem, HPE Nimble Storage and VAST Data, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble Storage.
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