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."
"vSAN Health is a feature designed to monitor the health and performance of the vSAN environment. It's crucial for us and our customers to frequently check on this to ensure everything is operating smoothly."
"VMware vSAN's most valuable features are the capability to consolidate standalone physical infrastructure into virtualization and the ease of management."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"The most valuable thing about vSAN is that all of its features have been working well for us for the past two years. We haven't had an issue with them."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"Technical support has been very good. They respond pretty fast, especially if we have a critical issue. Their responses have been great."
"Technical support has been fantastic. We always get answers quickly whenever we call."
"VMware vSAN is easy to implement in a VMware environment and it is not expensive."
"The response time for read requests can be improved."
"InfiniBox, right now, offers only asynchronous replication between two storages."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"I see room for improvement with vSAN in particularly in the reporting realm. Now, with vSAN 6.7, they're starting to include vRealize Operations components in the vSphere Client, even if you're not a vRealize Operations customer. So, that's really good. It exposes some really low-level reporting. I would like to see more of that. However, you have to be a vRealize Operations customer to obtain that. I would like to see more include of this included in the vSAN licensing."
"There is always a challenge with their firmware."
"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."
"Its integration with a hybrid cloud can be improved. Its scalability can also be improved so that it can be integrated with more than 32 nodes. The maximum number of nodes is okay, but our use cases could probably do with more nodes, probably up to 64. In terms of new features, it should probably have the basic support for high-speed networking spaces."
"Perhaps they could provide encryption without having to use an encryption manager."
"The main problem we had was hardware compatibility, finding the right hardware that was certified."
"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."
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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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