Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct vs Veritas Access comparison

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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and Veritas Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing""The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure.""It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions.""The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory.""The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable.""Its technical support is excellent."

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"It has a huge deduplication ratio for backups of long-term archives.""The product deployment is easy.""Veritas Access is user-friendly and the NAS and SAN volumes are valuable."

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"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools.""More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring.""Documentation management could be improved""The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution.""It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes.""It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."

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"I would like to see Veritas Access included as an S3 target.""The downtime of Veritas Access could be improved.""They could improve additional fees for the platform's data capacity. It could be more cost-effective."

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  • "With the data center licensing and everything that is connected to that, this solution is relatively costly."
  • "Cost-wise the product is one of the more affordable within the category of products."
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  • "This product is not cheap. The only extra cost is the licensing."
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    Top Answer:It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution. In comparison, the process is easy for VMware and VSAN.
    Top Answer:They could improve additional fees for the platform's data capacity. It could be more cost-effective.
    Top Answer:We use the product for long-term data retention.
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    MS Storage Spaces Direct
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    Overview

    Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features like caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovation like RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivaled efficiency and performance.

    Veritas Access is a software-defined, scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) solution for unstructured data that uses intelligent policies to optimize data placement on-premise or on public clouds. Access provides resiliency, multi-protocol access and automated data movement to realize application performance, cost-effectiveness and scalability gains.

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    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Large Enterprise29%
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    Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 8th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 7 reviews while Veritas Access is ranked 17th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 3 reviews. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.6, while Veritas Access is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "Stable solution with an easy initial setup process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Access writes "Provides seamless integration within the existing infrastructure and has an easy deployment process ". Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and DataCore SANsymphony, whereas Veritas Access is most compared with Veritas Access Appliance.

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