We performed a comparison between Vblock [EOL] 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."It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"Adding new nodes and expanding vSAN forward is simple and non-disruptive for a lot of our customers."
"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."
"vSAN has just one datastore. so customers do not need to think where to put their VMs, how to design the physical disk RAID, the LUN size, the LUN mapping, etc. when they use NetApp/EMC/HDS or other storage systems."
"I have used VMware for 15 years and I never had any problems with stability."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"If we decide to expand, vSAN could offer us some flexibility. We are researching ways to set this up from a new data center, which is located somewhere different from the current location right now."
"The product’s ecosystem is better than Nutanix’s."
"The most valuable features are productivity and data storage."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"Troubleshooting tools could be improved."
"The platform’s pricing needs improvement. Additionally, there should be an appliance module included in it."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"Dedupe in non flash drives can be improved."
"VMware vSAN could improve by adding NAS and object storage."
"It is a memory intensive app."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
"I would like to see a little bit more documentation on the initial setup, and a little bit more explanation on the expandability: How to extend out your vSAN much more simply through the console because, a lot of the time, you have to do it through the command line."
Earn 20 points
Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Vblock [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex.
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