G2

JOHN S.

Acting ICT Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/15/2026

"High-performance, scalable storage fabric for enterprise HCI deployments"

4/5

What do you like best about VMware vSAN?

What stands out most about VMware vSAN is its seamless, native integration with the VMware vSphere/ESXi hypervisor ecosystem. Managing storage policies directly from vCenter eliminates the complexity of traditional SAN/NAS arrays. It provides exceptional storage performance, resilient policy-based storage management (SPBM), and seamless node expansion especially when deployed on hyper-converged platforms like Dell VxRail. Deduplication, compression, and automated vSAN health monitoring ensure optimal capacity utilization and uptime across critical workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?

The licensing costs and hardware compatibility requirements can be steep for smaller deployments. It requires strict adherence to the VMware Compatibility Guide (HCL) for RAID controllers, NVMe/SSD drives, and network interfaces. Additionally, during heavy cluster resynchronization or rebuild operations, network telemetry needs to be carefully managed to avoid performance degradation on production VMs if dedicated 10GbE/25GbE storage backplanes aren't properly optimized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?

vSAN solves the challenge of storage complexity, single points of failure, and costly dedicated storage arrays in enterprise data centers. It allows us to consolidate compute and storage into a single hyper-converged layer. By using Storage Policy-Based Management, we can assign specific availability (FTT) and performance rules per virtual machine. This delivers high availability, rapid disaster recovery readiness, and simplified storage scaling as server workloads grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.