--- title: VMware vSAN Reviews meta\_title: 'VMware vSAN Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 264 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how VMware vSAN works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 264 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-12' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # VMware vSAN Reviews & Product Details Visit Website VMware vSAN is VMware’s integrated, hyperconverged storage software in VMware Cloud Foundation, enabling a cloud operational model for storage within VMware's premier private cloud platform. vSAN, as a part of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF), enables management of compute and storage with a single, integrated platform. vSAN delivers the agility, scalability, and performance essential for today’s dynamic applications and workloads. With direct integration into VCF and VVF, vSAN ensures unmatched storage efficiency, performance, and operational simplicity. vSAN empowers organizations to build, manage, and optimize private clouds using standardized storage building blocks, with the added flexibility to integrate seamlessly with edge and hybrid cloud environments. * * * Product Website VMware vSAN Seller [Broadcom](https://www.g2.com/sellers/broadcom-ab3091cd-4724-46a8-ac89-219d6bc8e166) Discussions [VMware vSAN Community](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Sue Ulintz Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/pricing) ## VMware vSAN Integrations (13) What do users say about integrations? 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It really does make SDN better than traditional storage SAN arrays, since it scales both storage space & IO/throughput when we add more nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware vSAN? Easy to break, hard to troubleshoot. We need less complex setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you? We wanted to move from traditional SAN storage to SDN since it seemed cheaper & scaled easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") AH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/25/2025 "Resilience is King" 3.5/5 What do you like best about VMware vSAN? vSAN has a great feature set to easily deploy and expand clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware vSAN? Depending on the use case the underlying infrastructure can be expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you? Fault tolerance and high performance are the two key features that we utilize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad") AT Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/26/2025 "vSAN performance increases over traditional storage arrays is worth it" 5/5 What do you like best about VMware vSAN? I like the performance increases for our storage plus the visibility to troubleshoot performance issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware vSAN? It is complicated to architect and migrate from traditional arrays, but ultimately worthwhile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you? Better storage management and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") EI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/26/2025 "VSAN is a great product" 4.5/5 What do you like best about VMware vSAN? The flexibility to integrate with whole ecosystem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware vSAN? Nothing in specific. It's a great product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you? Virtualization of Storage. We combine all our spare storage space through VSAN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") EB Verified User in Banking Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/27/2025 "Very good" 5/5 What do you like best about VMware vSAN? Everything is simpler and just works. Storage is optimized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware vSAN? The gui is a little complex the first timw you start using it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you? No problems yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/25/2025 "Review Vsan" 5/5 What do you like best about VMware vSAN? It is cheap and high performance. Easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware vSAN? Licensing model. It was very expensive and prevented implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you? Excellent to be used with horizon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign VM Vivek M. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/4/2024 "We have had a great experience using vSAN for our infrastructure." 4/5 What do you like best about VMware vSAN? vSAN is good in simplifying storage management, enhancing performance, and integrating with VMware's ecosystem. Its hyper-converged infrastructure offers scalability, while built-in data services optimize storage efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware vSAN? VSAN include its dependency on VMware's ecosystem, which can limit flexibility for mixed environments. Also the licensing costs is high, and the complexity of configuration and management may pose challenges for some organizations. Lastly, performance can be impacted if not properly sized or optimized for specific workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you? Storage management complexity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Dilshan L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dilshan L.") DL Dilshan L. Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/4/2024 "Why I used VMware vSAN over other storage products" 4.5/5 What do you like best about VMware vSAN? VMware vSAN is software software-defined storage solution. When we are using vSAN we do not need to maintain separate storage solutions. It reduces the CAPEX & OPEX cost and administrative overhead. These days companies are more concerned about cost. This is a major benefit of using vSAN. Maintaining separate hardware storage devices requires knowledgeable technical people. We need to purchase a separate SAN device from another vendor. It will create huge administrative overhead for the company. Using vSAN we can save power, cooling, cabling & space costs. VMware vSAN is a very reliable, fast storage solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware vSAN? Scaling up vSAN is difficult with VCF. We cannot scale up one server of the cluster when using vSAN with VCF. We need to upgrade all the servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you? Reduce CAPEX & OPEX costs - We do not need to purchase & maintain separate SAN solutions. Using an integrated server ( for RAM, CUP, and Storage) instead of a separate solution will reduce the power, cooling, cabling & space costs. Reduce administrative overhead - Maintaining a single vendor instead of multiple vendors reduces the administrative overhead Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/17/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Oswaldo T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Oswaldo T.") OT Oswaldo T. Ingeniero de Telemetría Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/14/2024 "Our experience with VMware vSAN" 4.5/5 What do you like best about VMware vSAN? VMware vSAN has been a game-changer for our organization. The ease of deployment and management is unparalleled, saving us time and effort. The performance is exceptional, providing the speed and reliability we need for our virtualized environment. The scalability of vSAN has allowed us to grow our infrastructure seamlessly, without any downtime. The cost savings are also significant, as we've been able to utilize our existing hardware more efficiently. Overall, VMware vSAN has exceeded our expectations and has become an integral part of our IT infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware vSAN? Some aspect may be complex to configure and manage requiring a deep understanding of storage and virtualization concepts. The licensing cost of vSAN can also be a concern if you have tight budget Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you? vSAN eliminates the need for separate storage arrays, reducing complexity and streamlining management tasks, aditionally it provides high-performance storage with built-in features like data deduplication, compression, and RAID, ensuring data availability and integrity an finally it seamlessly integrates with VMware's virtualization platform, allowing organizations to leverage existing skills and investments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Md Tanjil Islam B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Md Tanjil Islam B.") MB Md Tanjil Islam B. Infrastructure Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/14/2020 "vSAN-Ultimate VMware HCI" 5/5 What do you like best about VMware vSAN? Easy to manage, easy to scale up, better performance, and monitoring. Ability to stretch the cluster across the city to form a vSAN stretch cluster, which is definitely a great feature by VMware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VMware vSAN? Host Isolation due to network failure can cause the data loss also. It requires SSD disk for form a vSAN cluster, which could be a budget issue for future expansion. Always recommended to use the same hardware, so it could be difficult to expand the cluster size after one or more business year as the hardware specs might get changed by the hardware vendor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering VMware vSAN: Please consider a minimum of 5 physical hosts for the vSAN production cluster. Please make sure at least 2 SSD drive for creating a disk group for better performance. It will reduce the cost of purchasing and maintaining another storage (which might require additional skilled resources to maintain). Please purchase the vSAN ready node, which is available from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Huawei. Please consider the latest hardware and do a proper sizing plan for future expansion. It is always good to create new cluster instead of expanding the old cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you? We are running VMware Horizon Desktop and Workspace One (Airwatch) on the vSAN platform. It is built with HP vSAN ready nodes (specialized server designed for vSAN environment). Where the users are accessing the order processing application of a pharmaceuticals company. We are using some install clone feature from Horizon for which vSAN is doing great to provide better performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/4/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about VMware vSAN? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about VMware vSAN ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/discussions/new) ![Thu-alfaqar S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Thu-alfaqar S.") TS Thu-alfaqar Salah • Last activity about 1 month ago How are you balancing vSAN 8 ESA performance gains with higher subscription licensing costs? 1 Upvote 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-are-you-balancing-vsan-8-esa-performance-gains-with-higher-subscription-licensing-costs) DM Deepak Mansukhani • Last activity 14 days ago How do you balance VMware vSAN performance and scalability with hardware prerequisites and cost? 1 Upvote 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-balance-vmware-vsan-performance-and-scalability-with-hardware-prerequisites-and-cost) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 19 months ### Average Discount 15% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/pricing) VMware vSAN Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_13aba37ae908d9cf29a2452925257ccc/azure-stack-hci.jpeg "Product Avatar Image") Azure Stack HCI 4.2/5(12) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/azure-stack-hci-vs-vmware-vsan) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_546b8765f5b21b7fe0c28b00145d0eff/nutanix-cloud-infrastructure-nci.png "Product Avatar Image") Nutanix Cloud... 4.5/5(333) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/nutanix-cloud-infrastructure-nci-vs-vmware-vsan) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_39e6a22fb99b8507506caa182406244b/datacore-sansymphony.png "Product Avatar Image") DataCore SANsymphony 4.3/5(32) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/datacore-sansymphony-vs-vmware-vsan) ##### ##### VMware vSAN Features Core Functions Server Virtualization Storage Virtualization Network Virtualization General Functionality Dynamic Scaling High Availability Data Security Configuration Appliance Independence Hardware Integration Performance High Availability Low Latency High Scalability [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/features) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)") Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 4.5/5(333) ](https://www.g2.com/products/nutanix-cloud-infrastructure-nci/reviews) [ ![DataCore SANsymphony](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "DataCore SANsymphony") DataCore SANsymphony 4.3/5(32) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datacore-sansymphony/reviews) [ ![VxRail](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "VxRail") VxRail 4.3/5(41) ](https://www.g2.com/products/vxrail/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/competitors/alternatives) ##### Categories on G2 [Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/hyperconverged-infrastructure-hci-solutions)[Block Storage](https://www.g2.com/categories/block-storage)[Hybrid Cloud Storage Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/hybrid-cloud-storage-solutions) ##### Explore More [DualEntry vs Blackbaud Tuition Management: which education finance software helps higher education departments reduce fragmented processes across billing, HR, and student records?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/dualentry-vs-blackbaud-tuition-management-which-education-finance-software-helps-higher-education-departments-reduce-fragmented-processes-across-billing-hr-and-student-records)[Leading QMS solutions for software industry](https://www.g2.com/discussions/leading-qms-solutions-for-the-software-industry)[What is the top-rated translation management system for enterprises?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-top-rated-translation-management-system-for-enterprises) [What HR service delivery platforms have strong integration capabilities so employee requests and case management flow seamlessly with the existing HR tech stack?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-hr-service-delivery-platforms-have-strong-integration-capabilities-so-employee-requests-and-case-management-flow-seamlessly-with-the-existing-hr-tech-stack)[Which document databases have the most accessible learning curve for engineers who are coming from a relational SQL background and want to ramp up quickly?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-document-databases-have-the-most-accessible-learning-curve-for-engineers-who-are-coming-from-a-relational-sql-background-and-want-to-ramp-up-quickly)[What's the leading software for online business events](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-the-leading-software-for-online-business-events) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)