G2

MD KAMRUDDIN C.

Deputy Manager, Infrastructure & Network Department

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 6/22/2020

"One of the best Hyper Converged software in the market"

4/5

What do you like best about VMware vSAN?

The whole vSAN management user interface is integrated in vCenter. It eliminates the requirement of storage administrator. If vSphere administrator has sufficient knowledge of storage, he can administer the vSAN also. The storage performance is very good. It made the whole cluster a fault tolerant system. It can tolerate disk failure, host failure, even rack failure. It decoupled the storage from underlying hardware and the supported compatible hardware list is so long. vSAN has two flavors: hybrid - that can use magnetic disk and All flash- used with all flash disk. The vSAN health check monitoring is also very easy that are integrated into vCenter and it is improving day by day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?

The pricing model is per socket based which is not suitable for small customer. The cost per socket is also too much high. The yearly SnS price is high also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VMware vSAN:

If your are in problem of scaling storage and your current environment is running on vSphere, then you consider VMware vSAN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were looking for a storage solution that can be easily scaled and managed. Although there were several options, we chose vSAN because we have already vSphere in our data center. Since vSAN is already integrated into kernel we only need to push license key to activate it. No new hardware purchase was required, so no procurement time needed for hardware procurement and shipment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.