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 initial setup isn't too difficult."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"VMware vSAN's most valuable features are the capability to consolidate standalone physical infrastructure into virtualization and the ease of management."
"It easily integrates with all types of storage."
"If we decide to expand, vSAN could offer us some flexibility. We are researching ways to set this up from a new data center, which is located somewhere different from the current location right now."
"The solution fits well with my requirements."
"This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created."
"There is not a lot of maintenance required."
"It allows us to put our infrastructure in remote locations and still get the same performance we get from our onsite SAN solutions."
"The installation is very easy."
"It should have a single dashboard for cloud management and on-premises systems"
"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."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"The line migration is a problem."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"I see room for improvement for vSAN just around general hardware compatibility and expanding that sort of matrix."
"They should provide Deduplication and Compression over the hybrid drives."
"The solution must provide better customization."
"VMware vSAN could improve by adding NAS and object storage."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"The only negative point relates to the licensing. If you want multiple, different servers, it costs money, but you have all the capacity for vSAN. You do not reach the data, but the processor arrays and the current architecture."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could 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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