We performed a comparison between Scality RING and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I think it's the economic factor. This solution has the lowest cost for storage systems."
"Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency."
"The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface."
"We are finding that vSAN is a lot more scalable and adaptable, because we can go in with hybrid arrays for our lower-end storage needs or with all-flash versions of vSAN for places where we need more performance, and it's coming in at a lower cost point than an actual traditional array."
"There is not a lot of maintenance required."
"vSAN can help customers save on storage system costs, and also save on the human cost."
"I like the orchestration feature."
"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."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSAN are that it receives updates frequently, has good compression, optimized storage, and they provide webinars on what is new. Additionally, the integration with third-party products is good and it is easy to manage."
"We find it easy to deliver this solution."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"When we used this solution in 2015, it was not scalable at all. I don't know if they have improved on that, but at the time, scalability was just horrible."
"Scality RING is not easy to learn for someone new. It is a little bit difficult. There are a lot of components to it, and you also need to understand them to work with it effectively."
"Scality RING8 could improve by having more features. We have to use two automation tools to meet our needs. We would prefer to use only one."
"I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment."
"While I like the replication and compression features, there is a problem with them running too slowly."
"We plan to switch products since the hardware nowadays is a little bit outdated and we need to scale up a bit."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"In a future release, they can bring in the object storage capabilities to this solution. Currently, there is not any compatibility."
"I would like to see more support for applications. I think currently it only supports applications between two vSAN clusters."
"One of the things that we've had challenges with are when we place hosts into maintenance mode. Sometimes doing so triggers large re-sync processes which can be time-consuming and which have, at times, pushed the capacity to the threshold. I definitely think making some changes in that area would provide some big improvements."
"The quality of the customer service and support depends on the vSAN case. For example, if I open ten cases, maybe two or three get resolved quickly. But the other cases have a slow response."
Scality RING is ranked 16th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 4 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Scality RING is rated 7.8, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Scality RING writes "Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Scality RING is most compared with Dell ECS, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Qumulo and IBM Cloud Object Storage, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex. See our Scality RING vs. VMware vSAN report.
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