We performed a comparison between INFINIDAT InfiniBox and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Enterprise SAN."This product has good performance."
"Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"The product’s ecosystem is better than Nutanix’s."
"We don't have to order a storage system, we can just use whatever we have on hand and roll it into our virtualization system."
"The implementation is simple, it was very straightforward. It took us approximately three weeks because it was installed in four locations."
"It is easier to deploy than the traditional SAN."
"Storage policies are used to perform operations in the VMs. This feature allows you to create storage policies for VMs to get performance, high availability, I/O policies, etc."
"By eliminating dependency on that back-end storage, we now depend on everything that's in the VMkernel with vSAN. We eliminate the middleman."
"It scales well. We have plenty of room to grow."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"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."
"There's a lot that can be done to segregate. That may be available now in vSAN 7, I suppose, however, the deduplication and compression can be segregated."
"It would be ideal if clients didn't need to monitor the solution on a daily basis."
"I would like compression and deduplication to be offered for offloading hardware, instead of doing it with software. That would be nice."
"Hardware load balancing is available on the enterprise version of the solution, however, it's extremely expensive and therefore out of our budget."
"The usability is pretty good but it could use a little tweaking on the UI, with a clearer definition of exactly what some of the things do."
"It is an expensive solution."
"I would like a better Hardware Certification List (HCL). The HCL should a little easier to deal with."
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INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Dell XtremIO, 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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