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."It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The lower skill cost of maintaining it meant that we could do more with the people that we had."
"It's stable and scalable. Also, you can virtualize SAN so that you don't have to have a separate storage area network and can have your computer and storage on the same box or computer."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"The flexibility is most valuable. Being able to manage things quickly if something goes wrong is also valuable. Very recently, we had one node that went down due to a power problem, but there was really no major impact on the systems running on top of it."
"The valuable features are its scalability and the standardization - one size fits all. It's also intuitive and easy to use because one size fits all. Obviously, it scales out, but it's the same solution at every physical location I manage."
"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."
"It allows us to put our infrastructure in remote locations and still get the same performance we get from our onsite SAN solutions."
"Very easy to implement in any existing environment."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"The line migration is a problem."
"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."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"What I would like to see, for the really small customers, is the ability to have two nodes."
"VMware vSAN could improve by adding NAS and object storage."
"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."
"Reporting currently depends on third party applications and that could be improved."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"As no product is 100% perfect, the price for VMware vSAN could still be improved, though it is good when compared to some of its competitors."
"The product's complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There is a room for improvement on the latest version of compatibility with the VMware product, especially for vSAN and with other vendors on their motherboards and driver configurations."
Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8, 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, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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