We performed a comparison between Red Hat Gluster Storage and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The price tag is good compared to the amount of data and high availability provided."
"The technical support team is excellent."
"It's very easy to upgrade storage."
"The lower skill cost of maintaining it meant that we could do more with the people that we had."
"There is not a lot of maintenance required."
"It is easier to deploy than the traditional SAN."
"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."
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"Data management and recovery processes are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are Erasure Coding, Deduplication and Compression, and the advancement in stretching regarding replication."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"The user interface could be simplified."
"The performance of the solution must be improved."
"The system should be more intuitive and easier to manage."
"It can be very expensive."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
"The updating process could be easier."
"I would like to be able to limit IOPS."
"A vSAN cluster must have compression and deduplication to be an all-flash array, but it's not supported with a hybrid array. Deduplication and compression work better with an all-flash array, so I think that VMware should give customers the option to activate and support this feature for hybrid arrays. Other products like Nutanix support this."
"While I like the replication and compression features, there is a problem with them running too slowly."
"Some intelligence can be added to the newest version to provide more flexibility between storage tiers."
"I would like to see more comprehensive lifecycle management. The current path and process for upgrading or updating the firmware, as well as the storage controller software to interact with that firmware, is fairly manual and not very well documented. A little more time and effort spent on the documentation of the lifecycle management for vSan would be really great."
Red Hat Gluster Storage is ranked 12th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Red Hat Gluster Storage is rated 7.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Red Hat Gluster Storage writes "A scalable and easy-to-implement solution that has an excellent technical support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Red Hat Gluster Storage is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, IBM Spectrum Scale, LizardFS, LINBIT SDS and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex.
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