--- title: VMware vSAN Reviews meta_title: 'VMware vSAN Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 213 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: 213 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-20' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # VMware vSAN Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions ](https://www.g2.com/categories/hyperconverged-infrastructure-hci-solutions) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 213 ## About VMware vSAN 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. ## VMware vSAN Reviews ### 1. VMware vSAN review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Saves costs relating to storage. Save costs relating to managed services. It allows the ability to manage in only one interface all aspects of our load. It reduces rack space. Facilitates better storage management. Supports Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Would be nice to have an easier way to find unused/unassigned hard drives, i.e., management of disks is little tricky. More granularity in statistics as well as more detailed graphs about usage would be desirable. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows the ability to manage in only one interface all aspects of our load. Better throughput, performance and reporting. ### 2. VSAN usability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** VSAN allows you to choose your own hardware vendor. Also allows predictable replacement cycle. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Cost keeps going up. We may be priced out of use case soon. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Replaced aging SAN ### 3. Great HCI SDS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan R. | Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Best HCI you can get on the market for a vSphere enviornment. vSAN is a great HCI solution, overall experience through a few years of vSAN administration is almost excellent. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** It requires high network bandwidth requires dedicated port requires different licenses for different clusters **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling storage in traditional setups can be challenging and often involves significant upfront costs. vSAN allows for more flexible scalability by leveraging the compute and storage resources available within the cluster, making it easier to scale storage capacity and performance as needed. ### 4. Server virtualization with converged hardware **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sriram S. | Senior Technical Specilaist, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I like distributed architecture, optimized storage performance and high availability features of vSAN It is easy to use Easy to implement Very easy to integrate with vSphere and vCenter **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Licensing costs are a bit high compared to other solutions. Hardware compatibiltiy is challenging as all legacy hardware are NOT compatible with vSAN. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** vSAN has integrated with vSphere and vCenter server for server virtualization and mananging day in day out activities. Storage optimization has improved by using vSAN cluster. High Availability of production servers ### 5. VMware vSAN my experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nelson Y. | Especialista en Infraestructura, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** - ease of use - integration with vSphere - simplest implementation - efficient customer support **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** - care in planning - many steps for upgrade of software **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** simplifying the administration of infrastructure, benefits me by giving me more time for other projects ### 6. Evaluating VMware vSAN **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diksha L. | Server Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Integration with VMware ecosystem Scalability Cost Performance Management and ease of use Support and Community **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Complexity to configuration for 1st time use,Compatibility issue **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Management of Virtual VM is very easy using Vspere console and also adding Virtual features like increse HDD size etc.. backup data using raid configuration is also imp feature for manage database and backup ### 7. It works really well it's is easy manage and can easily scale **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It is reliable and the interface is easy to use **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** It can be a bit expensive if not planned well **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not really heavily used it for but our network uses it ### 8. Straight Forward Set Up **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Ease of setup - it was a click of a button and everything just starts working. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Some of the storage requirements when setting up policies is difficult to **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage consolidation. ### 9. VSAN - how to increase performance and resilience of your vSphere datastores **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Łukasz Z. | Vmware administartor, Banking, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** VSAN is integrated part of ESXi hypervisor and this gives best in class performance and integration with all components of vSphere like vCenter and it is easy for implementation. VSAN has simple lifecycle management and most of tasks can be done online without impact on working virtual machines. VSAN has great customer support which can help fixing problems quicly which helps improve SLA. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Sometimes see lacks in VSAN documentation. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Replication of virtual machines between 2 data centers. ### 10. . **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Ease of Use Ease of Implementation Ease of Integration Take advantage of the disk space of the local server, and reduce the cost of purchasing and maintaining with shared storage. Improve read and write performance with SSDs **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** VSAN uses the space of the local hard disk, and the expansion of storage space in the future is relatively difficult.VSAN requires each physical host to be configured with a license, resulting in higher licensing costs. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** shared storage in different hardware ### 11. Vsan is very good tecnology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Douglas N. | Data Center Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Simplicity: vSAN simplifies storage management by integrating directly into the VMware environment. It eliminates the need for separate storage arrays and simplifies the deployment and management of storage. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Complexity of Implementation: While VMware vSAN aims to simplify storage management, the initial setup and configuration can be complex, especially for users who are new to software-defined storage concepts. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation: vSAN supports automation and orchestration through VMware's vRealize Suite, allowing you to automate provisioning, monitoring, and management tasks. ### 12. Great Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Simple to deploy. Great set of features and integrated with a good set of products. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** I think the future is 100% virtualized dc. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage complexity and IT silos. ### 13. vSAN Review after using for a long time. Highly Satisfied. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Its simple and easy to understand. It is highly easy to integrate. The community is also very friendly and helpful. If anyone faces any issue they should definitely reach out to the community. vSAN help in scalability. And also have many other tons of features. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Cost can be a factor which can be considered as a con. Heavy usage can lead to greater bill when compared to other storage options. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage is key for any business. Safety to data as well as convenience in ease of access is the reason we use vSAN. We don't need external storage because of vSAN. The storage are capable of doing high performance tasks with speed. ### 14. System administrator at Bankofabyssinia reviewed an experience with vSAN **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sofoniyas T. | Data Centre and Server Management.System Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** stabilty and scalability which ease an experiance in a day of system admin **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** nothing that much since most of the commencts i have are posetive 5 **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** delivering a software defined storage for business critical services. ### 15. VMware vSAN **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Collin Y. | System Admin, Hospital & Health Care, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Easy to expand vsan cluster and vsan datastore by just adding new esxi server. No need to expand filesystem, just create new disk group. Expanding vsan datastore by replacing bigger disks. Also not having to buy a SAN **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Updates can be wonky, it does weird things sometimes and at the end of the day I did find management to be any easier than a traditional SAN. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** The cost of purchasing a SAN ### 16. vSAN works mostly **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It does allow for storage flexiblity but... **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** When you power off oyur hosts vSAN corrupts and you have to rebuild. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing really ### 17. Very Good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew Joseph G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Performance: vSAN can leverage the high-speed local storage of each server to deliver impressive performance. It also includes features like read/write caching and data deduplication to enhance overall system performance. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Cost: While vSAN can lead to cost savings in certain scenarios, the initial investment in hardware that meets vSAN requirements can be significant. Organizations need to carefully evaluate the cost-effectiveness of vSAN compared to traditional storage solutions. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very good ### 18. Worthy of price and lots of configuration options **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dawid D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Easy in use if you already use any VMware solutions and know something about storage technologies. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Cost of start with it - hardware, license and network for that solution has quite big requirements. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Billing clients, statistics of use and native integration with VMware products. VSAN has built in mechanisms for that functionality and while we have many clients in our private cloud we can really easy calculate costs. ### 19. Awesome vSAN **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harshvardhan G. | Chief Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Ease of use and deployment, vSAN can be scaled easily without buying extra SAN switch, SFPs and bunch of FC cables. those days are long gone. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** disk groups concept I didn't like but thats also addressed by VMWare with vSAN ESA **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** managing legacy SAN infra was biggest pain point for us, with vSAN, we were able to completely remove our old and ageing SAN infrastructure. ### 20. vSAN Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** VMware vSAN allows to manage all infrastructure operations from a single point. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** vSAN uses up to 25% of total system resources to run. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** We host virtual servers with high IO requirements in vSAN environment. We also host servers with aggressive workloads. ### 21. the vsan help us to build NFVi infrastructure to our customer on my company **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faliq F. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** power full and ease of deployment and helps with integration into devices **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** nothing, because vsan can help from the project **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** unite hard drives without providing external devices ### 22. Excellent scalable DCV option **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter C. | Technical Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Highly flexible solution that allows us to scale as required **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Some of the automation such as the ESA cryptographic erase is not available **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Affordable hyperconverged soliution ### 23. VMware HCI Technology that simply works! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jorge B. | Technical Support Professional - N2, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I think that VSAN is one of my favorite things in one vSphere cluster and because the option is emmbeded on ESXi kernel. Streched cluster is something very useful feature and capability. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** I think that Licensing model could be better **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMware VSAN help us on increase the performace of storage on us vsphere cluster for critical applications like database. ### 24. Disruptive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** The stretched cluster option has become super interesting for financial customers in Brazil, due to high infrastructure availability regulations, making it simpler to use with VSAN. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** There are points of the old architecture that have now been bypassed with the ESA option. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accelerate the setup of complete, high-performance infrastructures, in addition to working together with automation solutions to simplify adoption. ### 25. It's simple to use and provides robust storage managment. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh M. | Senior System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I like the the simplicity of use and the ability to simplify storage management by leveraging policies and rules. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Cost, although the performance trade-off is worth it. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is reducing the time/effort required for storage management by utilizing storage polices/rules, thus allowing me to focus on other things. ### 26. Easy to use, reliable and cost effective **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It is easy to cofigure. Reliable with a good performance. and cost effective. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Scalability is a problem, if you want more space and your servers are out of disks, you need to buy a new server. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is cost effective, you don't need to buy extra storage to host your workloads, you can just use the local storage of your servers. It is easy to stup and integrated with vSphere, so you avoid the complexity of configuring an external storage for your workloads. ### 27. A vSAN that won' let you down. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I like density you can get from their vSAN for VM's. I like that you can tie in to both block and file storage. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** It makes it more difficult for disk management. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** The reduction in the datacenter footprint. ### 28. Pre sales for VMware and enthusiastic for vSAN **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rodrigo Z. | Solutions Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Easy to manage and deploy, medium dificult to search know people **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Pricing and new license mode. THe new lic mode is unreal **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** 6 monts later we have one critical issue, but support can resolve that. ### 29. VMware vSAN **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** The integrated system provides an easy interface to configure, manage and troubleshoot the environment **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Takes a while to get it just right for the tuned performance **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick turnaround for storage solutions, better sustainability solution, avoids big DC floor space for arrays ### 30. my vsan experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** not having to worry about having storage arrays and being able to manage everything from a single console si no **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** if you do not have a very stable and powerful network it can cause problems. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** business and critical applications. ### 31. More productive and scalable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Konstantinos K. | Information Technology Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Simplicity and expandability of storage! **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Performance issues that causes some stability mistakes **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** The major problem is that you can integrate with various SAN's of more than one producer and unify those and manage all of them throught one platform. ### 32. New VSan **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim P. | Vice President, Network Data Center Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** The vSAN gives us the flexibility and growth we need for years to come. The biggest concern was performance before we deployed but since we're running all flash the performance is excellent. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Mainly with the disk cache loosing storage from the overall disk size. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of deployment and simplifying the overall environment. ### 33. Better, faster cheaper **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Before vSAN, we were using very expensive traditional backend SAN storage. The move to vSAN on HCI made the price per GB much less while also giving us better performance. With HCI, it also allowed us to automate provisioning much easier. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** To get full redundancy, it takes a decent amount of hardware to seed a deployment. This could be cost prohibitive for some use cases. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster provisioning at a better price. ### 34. VSAN is Low Cost Solution **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ishrat M. | Associate Manager Collaboration Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** We have low cost soltuion and the most amazing feature are on the top from other venders **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Vmware should allow some more features like other SANs **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Live migration always have challanges to move with VSAN ### 35. Of course. it is very popular in my country **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dung N. | IT Support Specialist, Food Production, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Safe, secure, popular software in my country **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** I don't know, may be, do not alot of training "how to use or find document?" **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create virtual servers to ensure data security and recovery when problems occur ### 36. vSAN **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Esther R. | System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Reduces cost Easy to manage Easy to provision Requires less effort to set up **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Balancing disk usage is a limitation I see with vSAN **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in setting local or direct storage devices to connect and convert into a single storage pool that can be shared within all the hosts in the vSAN cluster ### 37. My involvement by utilizing vSAN in vCenter **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** The best thing in VMware vSAN is I can easily manage multiple ESXi hosts' storage capacity into single pool of storage. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Actually I still have challenge when using vSAN that still have several limitations (not support RDM, VMFS, diagnostic partition). I hope these limitations would be covered on the new feature on the next phase fo VMware vSAN. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** by VMware vSAN I could simply manage multiple ESXI host. ### 38. Streamlined Storage Infrastructure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** The seamless integration, performance, scalability, and data protection capabilities make VMware vSAN a standout solution for modern virtualized environments. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** The performance may be affected by factors such as network latency or misconfigurations. It's crucial to carefully design and configure the vSAN environment to optimize performance. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** By integrating directly with VMware vSphere, vSAN simplifies storage management by eliminating the need for separate storage management interfaces and reducing administrative overhead. ### 39. VSAN is wonderful technology and very much useful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2023 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** VSAN enables adopters to migrate data between drives easily and without any downtime,Virtualization administrators can relocate frequently accessed data to high-performance storage, pushing rarely accessed data regions onto less expensive storage resources.Although it's relatively easy to manage identical drives, the task can become much more difficult if storage resources involve several vendors or even several models from the same vendor. A VSAN isn't only easy to set up, but straightforward to manage and provision. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** vSAN does not support hosts participating in multiple vSAN clusters. vSAN does not support vSphere DPM and Storage I/O Control. vSAN does not support SE Sparse disks. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** t's relatively easy to manage identical drives, the task can become much more difficult if storage resources involve several vendors or even several models from the same vendor. A VSAN isn't only easy to set up, but straightforward to manage and provision. ### 40. Best SDS on the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pawel P. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It's integration with vSphere, community and education with excellen courses provided by highly skilled instuctors. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Support is not necessarily on the top level. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalability and shortage of staff. ### 41. ITD **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tú N. | Senior Professional, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Support for Application Moderizations and Others. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** The cost for solution is high with us now. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Help us to solve the issues for workloads. ### 42. vSAN in mgmt cluster **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I love scalibilty, redundancy, flexibility, vsan health **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** I didnt find anything to dislike yet in our infra. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it as solution for our mgmt and witness clusters. ### 43. Cloud Supppport Enginner **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushil K. | Cloud Support Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Speedy and resiliancy read/write, very noce product. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** My experieance for vSAN is all good, i dont have any dislike. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It benifits me at all aspect in my env. ### 44. Engineer View **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Quang M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It provide us another Storage solution. i love it **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** for now, nothing dislike Vmware vSAN. it very useful **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** For now, i didn't face any issue ### 45. VMware vSAN Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Manageability, Agility, Simplicity, Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** The switching from the Perpetual licensing model to the subscription licensing model. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing at the moment. ### 46. Unlocking the power of virtualized storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manu K. | Senior Analyst-Workplace Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Simlpified storage management, scalability, performance, flexibility **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** For those who are new to Virtualized storage there might be a learning curve **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Traditional storage challenges & scalability issues ### 47. Manoj Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manoj K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Ease of Use, Number of Features, Ease of Implementation **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Data Protection need to known apart from that nothing **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dependency on multiple resources for each sections. ### 48. So good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anh Tai N. | Head of Windows and Virtualization Team, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Flexibility to scale up and scale out ... **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Complicated in configuration and quite hard to maintain. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Combine many difference hardwares to make a big storage ### 49. vSAN, some thougths **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Ease of implementation and ease of management is very important, but integration with vSphere and SPBM is the most important functionality of vSAN. I also like abiility to trace I/O path from VM to physical storage. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** What I consider its biggest voulnerability is vSAN's dependency on external network devices. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage management in complex and distributed environments. ### 50. Super simple hyperconverged infrastructure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Super easy to implement and no hassle to manage. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** The additional concerns when managing hosts for patching/maintenance **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing storage and compute resources at non-datacenter locations ## VMware vSAN Discussions - [How are you balancing vSAN 8 ESA performance gains with higher subscription licensing costs?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-are-you-balancing-vsan-8-esa-performance-gains-with-higher-subscription-licensing-costs) - 1 upvote - [View VMware vSAN pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/reviews?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-20+12%3A26%3A40+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a56369b8-e20e-4a7b-84e6-80a3776d87ba&secure%5Btoken%5D=8e1730d299a0ab0c256f6beee738fbf3f94a7863afe826f53685173ed23d1ca4&format=llm_user) ## VMware vSAN Integrations - [Geneva](https://www.g2.com/products/geneva/reviews) - [OpenStack](https://www.g2.com/products/openstack/reviews) - [vCenter Converter](https://www.g2.com/products/vcenter-converter/reviews) - [Veeam Backup for Google Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-backup-for-google-cloud/reviews) - [Veeam Data Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-data-platform/reviews) - [VMware ESXi](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-esxi/reviews) - [VMware Tanzu Labs](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-tanzu-labs/reviews) - [VMware vSphere](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsphere/reviews) ## VMware vSAN Features **Core Functions** - Server Virtualization - Storage Virtualization - Network Virtualization **Performance** - High Availability - Low Latency - High Scalability - Fast Application Deployment **General Functionality** - Dynamic Scaling - High Availability - Data Security - Backup and Recovery **Functionality** - Simplified Management - Monitoring Tool - Cost-Saving **Configuration** - Appliance Independence - Hardware Integration **Security** - Business Continuity - Data Security **Agentic AI - Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions** - Autonomous Task Execution - Adaptive Learning - Decision Making ## Top VMware vSAN Alternatives - [Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)](https://www.g2.com/products/nutanix-cloud-infrastructure-nci/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (291 reviews) - [DataCore SANsymphony](https://www.g2.com/products/datacore-sansymphony/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (28 reviews) - [VxRail](https://www.g2.com/products/vxrail/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (32 reviews)