VMware vSAN Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score9.1 out of 10

59 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for VMware vSAN are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Cost Savings: Several users have mentioned that using VMware vSAN allowed them to save costs in terms of storage and managed services. They were able to manage all aspects of their workload in one interface, reducing the need for rack space and improving business agility.

Flexibility and Data Accessibility: Users appreciated the ability to write data anywhere and access it anytime, even in the event of hardware failure. This feature provided them with flexibility and uninterrupted access to their data, contributing to a seamless user experience.

Simplified Management: Many users highlighted the ease of managing VMware vSAN from a single management platform, specifically mentioning vCenter. They found it convenient that VMware runs VSAN certification programs to ensure OEMs sell validated nodes, making it easier for customers to select appropriate certified ready nodes. This unified approach simplified infrastructure management and reduced complexity for users.

VMware vSAN Reviews

4 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services4

VMware vSAN!!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 25, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We recommend VMware vSAN to our customers , especially where the customer does not want to use any external storage. VMware vSAN combines all the storage of servers installed in a cluster and creates a unified storage pool for the applications running on those servers. This is basically a hyper-converged solution, which can be used by many customers efficiently to run their applications.

Pros

Combines hard drives of servers and creates a common storage pool
Storage management
Supports Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Cons

Management of disks is little tricky.
Compatibility issues with traiditional servers
Not a great use case for critical applications.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is best suited for applications where there is not much data processing, means if customer does not want to go with external box of SAN or NAS, with the help of VMware VSAN the customer can pool all the hard disks of servers virtually which is shared by different VMs running on ESXI hypervisor. There should be 3 servers mainly to run this software.
Scenarios where there is large amount of data that is being processed by the customer applications, additional storage box is recommended,

Vandana Yadav

Presales Executive in Information Technology at Corporate Infotech Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

4 years of experience

vSAN is by far the best hyper-converged storage solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using VMware Virtual SAN from the initial release and up to this day, we really like the performance, integration, and consolidation capabilities of virtual san, as well as the billing model for cloud providers. The other key benefit is having a single support vendor through VMware's excellent support. The cadence of releases is also stable and new features are adding a lot of value. Overall we haven't had any issues with vSAN and would highly recommend it for any workloads.

Pros

Consolidation of compute and storage through the same management layer
single platform of storage for cloud native applications as well as traditional VMs
policy based management of storage with granular controls

Cons

encryption functions can be improved
HCI Mesh feature can be improved to be more like nutanix
the HCL can be updated more frequently with certified components to use with vSAN

Likelihood to Recommend

Especially relevant for service providers, as well as high-density deployments where rack space is at a premium. For anyone looking into hyper-converged solutions, it would be good to include comparisons with Nutanix and cisco's hyperflex who are also leaders in the space. It might also help to review each software vendors certifications to confirm that vSAN is "certified" with their application through reference architectures (SAP HANA, etc)

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Journey with vSAN

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use vSAN for our production environment where we run the business-critical services: ERP, VDI, HRM, EMAIL, Active Directory, DNS other in-house applications. We also have an iSCSI storage for the production environment with a few SATA disks. vSAN is built with 2xSSD and 4xSAS disks, with 2 disk groups on each host. This vSAN configuration gives us faster IOPS than the iSCSI storage we have. It reduces the cost of additional hardware, maintenance, and power consumption.

Pros

Write data anywhere, and anytime access with hardware failure.
Perform maintenance activity on any capacity node without interruption in the production environment.
Cost saving
Easy to manage from single management platform, that is vCenter.

Cons

NFS share isn't easy thing to do.
User friendly disk management.
Walkthrough guidance for the configuration for the user, that will bring [a] lot of customers.

Likelihood to Recommend

vSAN is well suited for any application that can run in Virtual Environment. vSAN serves better for VDI, NSX, and vSphere on Cloud solutions. vSAN is a good fit for small and medium business companies. vSAN can't be a good solution where you have Oracle Solaris or IBM power systems. vSAN can't provide storage space using FCP protocol.

Md Tanjil Islam Bappi

Senior Manager in Information Technology at Omega Exim limited (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

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vSAN use in an R&D lab

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 5, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Departmentally for R&D to investigate how our product line interacts within its framework. It solves multiple business problems including data integrity, business continuity for the department, and hyper-convergence for speeds and workloads. We have found that the platform will significantly accelerate workloads with limited issues. We are always seeking solutions that provide optimal data throughput with non-hardware redundancy.

Pros

Data integrity in an all-flash environment is very strong. Once it is up and running in a "raid 6" type format it will stay running without issues for a long time
Data flow. VMs sometimes require a lot of tweaking and tuning to get optimal performance but this is to be expected. We found the performance to be exceptional.
Portability of the VMs was also an unexpected surprise. The ability to migrate the VMs across datacenters was appreciated.

Cons

It would be nice to have fabric-based storage acceptance to disaggregate storage and expand beyond the node concept. The assumption that increased storage needs require increased compute or ram is simply not true.
The licensing costs are high but you do get what you pay for.

Likelihood to Recommend

High IO is excellent, but I was surprised by the performance in high write transactional testing. It performed well above my expectations. It performs well in environments with focused workloads and we recommend that each workload be its own cluster size-dependent of course. Again, assuming the workload needs the performance, you would be hard-pressed to find a better solution if you already have VMware in your environment.

Eric Garrison

Customer Engineer in Sales at ATTO Technology Inc (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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