We performed a comparison between SolidFire and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"The latency is good."
"The system allows for seamless learning experiences, facilitating quick and easy cloning of environments within minutes."
"The solution is scalable."
"It has benefited my organization because it has reduced time to insights."
"The initial setup was extremely simple and straightforward."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"The scalability and being able to implement it quickly."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"The simplicity of it."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"It's got full API functionality and the performance is pretty steady."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Provides good performance as well as integration with deployment tools."
"You get the benefit of local storage, but you have the protection of shared storage."
"The most valuable features are ease of deployment, and ease of management. If you compare it to other software-defined storage products, it's much easier. It's a checkbox. It's lot easier to manage."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"Technical support is good."
"The lower skill cost of maintaining it meant that we could do more with the people that we had."
"The valuable features of vSAN are that you can get it up and running quickly, you get redundancy built-in, and it's pretty much the perfect solution for a cluster."
"The software layer has to improve."
"It is on the expensive side."
"I'd like to see the product implement active replication for vehicles such as VMware."
"We need better data deduplication."
"We've seen that when we create a POD in synchronous mode, it increases the latency."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"I would like to see integration with the cloud, number one. Being able to spin SolidFire in the cloud."
"We had some false positives, power supplies failing, and that's really been about it. We had a couple of glitches during some upgrade processes but nothing that was really concerning to us."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
"They could make the mNode more user-friendly. Now you need to configure and add nodes by CLI and it’s not really easy to manage. If they created a web interface to do the management of the mNode, that would be great!."
"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."
"When we talk about improvements for vSAN, there is some way to go from a at least stability perspective. Adding all these new features is nice, but we are now at the level that most of the features you need in production are there."
"There is always a challenge with their firmware."
"There's already a concern with VMware with ransomware and security issues. VMware could focus on improving security."
"We would really like them to look at what Nutanix did for day-one/day-two operations deployment: Bringing in the equipment, getting it deployed, getting it setup, and ease of use of one-click for deploying our 30-node solution. With vSAN we had to go into each one individually and set it up."
"The updating process could be easier."
"I would like to see some of the more traditional SAN functions that are out the now. I can list them: being able to Snapshot on the back-end, better de-dupe, and better compression. Those are the major ones."
"Customers who are using Essentials Plus or even Essentials have to pay for technical support. However, they should not have to pay for support."
SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. SolidFire is rated 8.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and Pure Storage FlashArray, 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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