We performed a comparison between Springpath [EOL] and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The price was right."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"It is easy to use. It is easy to implement for us, and it is also easy to maintain for the customers. It is not necessary to buy some extra devices and talk with other vendors."
"Technical support is good."
"Its ease of use is most valuable. It is easy to configure, and there is a unified interface, which makes things slightly easier."
"While we haven't made major changes to our disaster recovery and business continuity processes yet, moving towards stretch vSAN across sites will simplify and expedite our DR processes in the future."
"it's easy to scale, it's easy to predict IOP needs, and you can design for low latency using all-flash... Also, for setting up new clusters for VDI quickly, it's nice. You don't have to wait on an order for a storage vendor to ship you a system and help you configure it, you do it all yourself. And the sizing guides are pretty straightforward."
"vSAN can help customers save on storage system costs, and also save on the human cost."
"The product’s most valuable features are performance and expandability."
"It is easy to work with, easy to handle, and easy to manage."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
"The price can be reduced. Small businesses cannot afford this solution."
"The UI could certainly be better. The inside into what's actually going on with vSAN would be nice to know."
"It could be more robust. The latency is also an issue for us, and the reliability. I would like it to be faster and a little more flexible."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
"VMware vSAN needs to improve its features because other solutions have more advanced features."
"They should provide Deduplication and Compression over the hybrid drives."
"The product's complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I see room for improvement for vSAN just around general hardware compatibility and expanding that sort of matrix."
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Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Springpath [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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