VMware vSAN Pros

Yves Sandfort - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Majority Shareholder at Comdivision Consulting GmbH
When we do to do more scaled load testing, we can run more dense workloads and still have the same results across all specific nodes
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CC
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
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.
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AP
Infrastructure Security with 201-500 employees
The ease of use is great.
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VMware vSAN
May 2023
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LN
Director at SOFTLOGIC
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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AD
Director - IT Strategy Lead at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
The flexibility is most valuable. Being able to manage things quickly if something goes wrong is also valuable. Very recently, we had one node that went down due to a power problem, but there was really no major impact on the systems running on top of it.
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LH
Country Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks
We didn't only choose vSAN; we chose VMware because of SR-IOV, which is more on the hypervisor level and not on the vSAN storage. It's part of the whole system.
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CP
Head of IT-Department at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
We had very good access to technical support.
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RS
Senior Director at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
VMware comes with different stacks like VMware Cloud Foundation, which is integrated with different VMware modules. There's interoperability between VMware products.
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NP
General Manager Sales at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I have found the solution to be scalable.
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Naveen Malkani - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect, Consultant and Corporate Trainer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The vSAN features we've found most helpful are live application migrations and storage policies. It has storage, policies, application, and DRS policies. Automation is there.
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VMware vSAN Cons

Yves Sandfort - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Majority Shareholder at Comdivision Consulting GmbH
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.
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CC
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment.
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AP
Infrastructure Security with 201-500 employees
The updating process could be easier.
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VMware vSAN
May 2023
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LN
Director at SOFTLOGIC
The only negative point relates to the licensing. If you want multiple, different servers, it costs money, but you have all the capacity for vSAN. You do not reach the data, but the processor arrays and the current architecture.
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AD
Director - IT Strategy Lead at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins.
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LH
Country Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks
There could be more features with the automatic backup.
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CP
Head of IT-Department at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The ability to access SAN environments with fiber channels (or even NVMe) would be a good addition.
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RS
Senior Director at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
I would like to see more support for applications. I think currently it only supports applications between two vSAN clusters.
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NP
General Manager Sales at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The pricing could be better when it comes to renewing the licenses.
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Naveen Malkani - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect, Consultant and Corporate Trainer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The pricing model is sometimes a challenge for us because their licenses are very costly.
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Buyer's Guide
VMware vSAN
May 2023
Learn what your peers think about VMware vSAN. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2023.
708,830 professionals have used our research since 2012.