

Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
Starting with a smaller infrastructure and scaling as required allows us to save costs initially.
I have seen a return on investment; it's satisfactory in the long run.
I would rate their support nine points.
I am not satisfied with VMware support, particularly with the reaction times, SLAs, and those kinds of issues.
If we consider technical support from Broadcom, I would rate them an eight or nine now.
It supports up to 64 nodes in a cluster, allowing us to add nodes and expand the cluster as needed.
If you have already bought it, you need specific servers, and it is easier with a SAN.
From my perspective, I would rate VMware vSAN's stability as extremely high, perhaps a nine.
In terms of stability, I give VMware vSAN nine points.
I have recently used Nutanix, and I observed that Nutanix provides better performance than VMware vSAN due to its data locality features.
Discussing the pricing model is significant as Broadcom creates many discussions worldwide regarding pricing.
A proper monitoring tool that encompasses both applications and infrastructure would help in quickly resolving issues.
This has resulted in a slight cost increase.
Hot add features are available by default in vSphere, allowing us to immediately increase memory, CPU, and hard drive without any downtime.
The performance is excellent, handling workloads better than direct-attached or legacy storage solutions.
Everything is integrated, allowing for more automation and ease of use.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| StarWind Storage Appliance | 1.2% |
| Dell PowerScale (Isilon) | 15.1% |
| Dell PowerStore | 10.4% |
| Other | 73.3% |
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| VMware vSAN | 11.4% |
| VxRail | 13.8% |
| Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) | 8.8% |
| Other | 66.0% |


| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 3 |
| Large Enterprise | 2 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 100 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 58 |
| Large Enterprise | 129 |
For SMB and Enterprises who are looking for high performance primary storage for server virtualization, VDI, database and Big Data scenarios, or inexpensive secondary backup tier, our solution is StarWind Storage Appliance. It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, and associated software into an easily scalable storage platform.
Additionally, the appliance features an optional gateway to Azure public cloud, which helps to implement an effective Disaster Recovery plan or meet regulatory requirements. StarWind SA scales up by adding individual disks and flash modules, or JBODs, while adding ready controller nodes allows scaling out.
StarWind SA targets those, who need high-performance primary storage or secondary storage for backup. In case there is a whole virtualization infrastructure to build from scratch, StarWind HCA will come in handy. Otherwise, if all the required hardware is present, StarWind Virtual SAN will be enough to build a high-performance virtualization setup.
VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage product that is used in collaboration with VMware ESXi hypervisor and that provisions and manages storage based on policies, regardless of the underlying hardware. The solution enables you to prime your business for growth through its seamless evolution (it is integrated with vSphere and requires no new tools), its flexibility, and its multi-cloud capabilities. As an industry-leading software, VMware vSAN provides high levels of performance with minimal impact on CPU and memory.
VMware vSAN Features
VMware vSAN has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:
VMware vSAN Benefits
There are many benefits to implementing VMware vSAN. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:
Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the VMware vSAN solution.
PeerSpot user Yves S., CEO, Cloud Evangelist at Comdivision Consulting GmbH, says, “vSAN gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources. We have an overall larger host infrastructure, and we split that up for specific customer test and use cases. In that specific scenario, we can easily add more hosts or reduce the number of hosts in the environment.”
A reviewer who works in Infrastructure Security explains, “The ease of use is great. The initial setup and upgrade process was pretty straightforward. And, technical support is great.”
Laurent N., Director at Softlogic, comments, "The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is easy to deploy. It is easy to create and delete virtual servers. It is easy to create the load balancing and the clustering."
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