We performed a comparison between INFINIDAT InfiniBox and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Enterprise SAN."Mostly, their support is also great at reacting to issues but moreover, proactive to prevent issues."
"This product has good performance."
"This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created."
"Technical support has been very good. They respond pretty fast, especially if we have a critical issue. Their responses have been great."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"There is not a lot of maintenance required."
"We can scale it very easily for a test environment. We were able to segment our DMZ so it wasn't connected to anything, which we really liked."
"VMware vSAN's most valuable features are the capability to consolidate standalone physical infrastructure into virtualization and the ease of management."
"Data management and recovery processes are the most valuable features."
"Instead of going for SAN storage, customers can use the scale-up and scale-out features of VMware vSAN."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having better integration with other vendors and the storage is limited, I prefer it to the traditional storage."
"They should provide Deduplication and Compression over the hybrid drives."
"Enterprise customers get discounts on the solution's licensing pricing, but it is too expensive for SMB customers."
"Hackers are able to manage to leak information or data from the product using some corrupt files, making it an area of major concern where improvements are required."
"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."
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INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and Dell XtremIO, 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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