We performed a comparison between Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct 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 performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"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."
"VMware comes with different stacks like VMware Cloud Foundation, which is integrated with different VMware modules. There's interoperability between VMware products."
"We don't have to order a storage system, we can just use whatever we have on hand and roll it into our virtualization system."
"The product’s most valuable features are performance and expandability."
"The solution is quite stable."
"It is scalable, overall. If you need to add storage, it makes it easy to scale by adding additional hard drives into the existing servers or you can add storage by just adding more servers."
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"The lower skill cost of maintaining it meant that we could do more with the people that we had."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
"The biggest room for improvement I see in vSAN is the lack of SAN connectivity. I've kind of joked around that there is no "SAN" in vSAN. And it's something that we've worked to try and introduce some options for, and we're going to continue to work towards that."
"What I would like to see, for the really small customers, is the ability to have two nodes."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
"The price can be reduced. Small businesses cannot afford this solution."
"Enterprise customers get discounts on the solution's licensing pricing, but it is too expensive for SMB customers."
"Lacks sufficient storage terabytes."
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Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerFlex.
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