We performed a comparison between Rackspace OpenStack and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."The solution is stable."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"Administrators are very comfortable with the functionality and services OpenStack offers."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"All the features are working great."
"This product has very good performance when it comes to virtualization storage and works well with solutions such as SAP HANA, Exadata, Hadoop, and Big Data Analytics."
"Storage policies are used to perform operations in the VMs. This feature allows you to create storage policies for VMs to get performance, high availability, I/O policies, etc."
"The technical support is good."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"The valuable feature of the solution is the total hyperconverged facility."
"VMware has been around for a long time are are doing a decent job at catching up with the latest technologies i.e. bringing in kubernetes and containerization. Overall, this is a great tool for virtualization."
"The most valuable features are Erasure Coding, Deduplication and Compression, and the advancement in stretching regarding replication."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"It should have a single dashboard for cloud management and on-premises systems"
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"The line migration is a problem."
"The monitoring feature in VMware vSAN could be better."
"I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment."
"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
"Some intelligence can be added to the newest version to provide more flexibility between storage tiers."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having faster reload time and a single point of failure. Resynchronization of many hardware could be better. If you have an outage of a disc or a full system, the replication time is too slow. This has room for improvement."
"It doesn't seem like it gives the performance that an actual SAN would give for heavy IOPS, read/writes."
"I am looking for more of a software-defined storage platform that uses different protocols, such as iSCSI, NFS, and CIS, and maybe also has an object as part of that. They should 100% make it more of a storage-based product where it is not linked just to VMware, and it also has NFS and iSCSI built-in at a scalable level. They should turn it more into a dedicated storage-as-a-service platform instead of just being built into the VMware kernel. Their level one and level two support is not at all good, and it should be improved."
Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 10 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Rackspace OpenStack is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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