We performed a comparison between Rackspace OpenStack and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The solution is stable."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The solutions best feature is that it is easy to use."
"Very good VCG notification feature."
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"Technical support has been very good. They respond pretty fast, especially if we have a critical issue. Their responses have been great."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"The most valuable features of vSAN are its simplicity to deploy and that we can use commodity disks in our servers without complexity or need for external storage arrays or storage specialists on our teams."
"VMware vSAN is easy to implement in a VMware environment and it is not expensive."
"In my opinion, vSAN is the most natural way to migrate to a fully hyperconverged solution. If a customer needs a more scalable solution with consolidated management, vSAN is excellent."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"The line migration is a problem."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"When we talk about improvements for vSAN, there is some way to go from a at least stability perspective. Adding all these new features is nice, but we are now at the level that most of the features you need in production are there."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
"One thing in vSAN that I would like to improve is using vSAN as a repository for files or other things. For example, with Horizon, maybe we can save profiles with UEM on there. That would be a good feature that I would like."
"I would like to see more support for applications. I think currently it only supports applications between two vSAN clusters."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"When designing the implementation for vSAN, I have noticed that it requires a minimum of six nodes, and this creates a problem when it comes to maintenance. If, out of the six nodes, I put one node in maintenance mode, then vSAN does not create other VM components."
"I would love to see vSAN integrate Persistent Memory and NVDIMMs. I know they're supposed to be working on an elastic tier so that we don't have the issues with destaging from the cache to the capacity. Those are the things that I'm interested in."
Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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