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."My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"It's got full API functionality and the performance is pretty steady."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"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."
"Greater IOPS, speed, it's all-flash. So seeing that everything is going to all-flash, all SSDs, SolidFire fits right in there with the emerging trend in IT."
"The provisioning process is efficient and doesn't demand higher latency, ensuring optimal data transfer performance which is particularly valuable for tasks like data mining, where quick results are essential."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"The performance of VMware vSAN is very good."
"The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The solutions best feature is that it is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is the ease of management. VMware vSAN it's a part of VMware ESXi and when you do patching for VMware ESXi, VMware vSAN receives the patches too."
"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."
"Scalability in vSAN has been really good. It's very easy to add nodes in, to automatically generate the drives and the disk groups. It has been a piece of cake, surprisingly so."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"They could do a file-based NAS: SolidFire NAS-based. It's probably not its niche, but that is our direction, not to use block, and it's block. Solid state block is what it is."
"It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"The upgrade process could be better."
"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
"The upgrading process could be simplified."
"There needs to be an increase in the supported memory and hard disk space, as it is an area where the product currently has certain shortcomings."
"Its installation should be easier, and its price should be cheaper. It would be good for the product if they can include the data locality feature."
"Only the stretched cluster requires a minor improvement."
"Its price could be improved. It is too expensive for our clients."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 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 and Dell PowerStore, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
We monitor all All-Flash Storage reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.