VMware vSAN Review

We have three hosts in a single cluster that provides us centralized storage with High Availability, although the hardware compatibility list should be expanded.

Valuable Features

  • It's very simple to use.
  • It work on commoditized hardware.
  • It provides centralized storage.

Improvements to My Organization

It's lowered our storage costs while still maintaining High Availability and with easy installation.

Room for Improvement

Expand the hardware compatibility list – it's pretty short. Definitely also the diagnostic and monitoring could be improved. That stuff is still very new.

Use of Solution

We have been using it since it came out in March 2015.

Stability Issues

So far so good.

Scalability Issues

Unsure – all I know is what I read, if it does what it says it does I'm very impressed.

Customer Service and Technical Support

Very good – quality support.

Initial Setup

We have three hosts in a cluster, and it was surprisingly easy.

Other Advice

Try it out – that’s the best way to know whether it's right for your organization.

**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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We can also create test cases. We can even throttle down performance or release more performance. So, we can run more precise test scenarios.
When we do to do more scaled load testing, we can run more dense workloads and still have the same results across all specific nodes
As a function of our core business, it's a sought after tool that helps us provide analytical support across a wide spectrum of client needs. It's allowed us to test out in our connected restaurant - "TheWorks" - a fully-functional restaurant experience center that allows our clients to discover the value of our connected solutions firsthand. We deploy vSAN in this customer-like environment within a hyperconvergent infrastruction (HCI) to give our clients a better understanding and help optimize data and the end-users' experience.
The newer versions of this solution are much more stable and easier to manage.
It is more stable now than it was before. It's not like it was in the first year. Now it is stable, and we trust it more.
VMware vSAN has greatly reduced refresh spending.
It is very easy to set up and very easy to use. It is very useful.
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