We performed a comparison between Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"By eliminating dependency on that back-end storage, we now depend on everything that's in the VMkernel with vSAN. We eliminate the middleman."
"The lower skill cost of maintaining it meant that we could do more with the people that we had."
"High availability is a valuable aspect of this solution."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"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."
"Good performance, reliable and agile."
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
"It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes."
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"There needs to be an increase in the supported memory and hard disk space, as it is an area where the product currently has certain shortcomings."
"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
"One area that could be improved is the management feature."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"It could be cheaper."
"he list of hardware supported should be increased in the future."
"The quality of the customer service and support depends on the vSAN case. For example, if I open ten cases, maybe two or three get resolved quickly. But the other cases have a slow response."
"We would really like them to look at what Nutanix did for day-one/day-two operations deployment: Bringing in the equipment, getting it deployed, getting it setup, and ease of use of one-click for deploying our 30-node solution. With vSAN we had to go into each one individually and set it up."
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Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Dell PowerFlex and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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