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."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."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"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 solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"vSAN is easy for deploying and maintenance, so some customers can do service themselves."
"The scalability has been quite good."
"I like that we could choose whatever hardware we wanted, rather than having to use one particular vendor."
"Everyone uses virtualization to more efficiently utilize hardware resources. That's the main point of vSAN and VMware."
"VMware vSAN is compatible with the legacy hypervisor solutions and most of the features are good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"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."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"The line migration is a problem."
"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)."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"The product's complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"On the DevOps side, if there could be more automation it would be more helpful."
"Lacks sufficient storage terabytes."
"The vSan product uses a software system called Vsphere to monitor the system. It is sometimes difficult to manage the PCs within the systems."
"The pricing model is sometimes a challenge for us because their licenses are very costly."
"When designing the implementation for vSAN, I have noticed that it requires a minimum of six nodes, and this creates a problem when it comes to maintenance. If, out of the six nodes, I put one node in maintenance mode, then vSAN does not create other VM components."
"The technical support, it's not satisfactory. Whenever we raise a ticket it takes a lot of time to have an engineer get involved sometimes, or we receive a less experienced engineer. We then have to repeat the situation to the next engineer which all takes time."
Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 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 Dell PowerFlex.
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