We performed a comparison between Portworx Enterprise and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Software Defined Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like that you have a small dedicated file system that is fast and resilient for containerized workloads."
"A custom IBM script is designed to tackle the storage management challenges within containerized environments, providing crucial data services and features required for enterprise applications."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The best thing about Portworx is the Stork, they have called the VPS (Volume Replacement Strategy) and they also have topology awareness, and these are the three features I like."
"Portworx virtualizes the aspects of the underlying block storage. That is good because they can also use block storage for their future deployment instead of just NFS."
"Portworx is a simple solution. It's similar to Pure Storage products. They're all easy to use and install. You need to have a little expertise with containers to use Portworx, but it will be no problem for you if you understand containers."
"It allows us to put our infrastructure in remote locations and still get the same performance we get from our onsite SAN solutions."
"It helped us survive power outages in one of our data centers, then continued to function without a hitch."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"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"
"VMware vSAN is a global solution, so we can manage all the storage solutions in one place. It's embedded in VCI solutions."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The performance has exceeded our expectations and exceeded our traditional converged infrastructure."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"It would be highly advantageous to include an integrated backup solution within the same license, rather than purchasing backup separately."
"I would like to see a more native mapping to mainframe-type systems."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"I think the vendor could provide more training for new users who may not be familiar with containers."
"The documentation could be better."
"They have not integrated Portworx with Ondat since they are too focused now on Pure Storage APIs and not on users like us."
"The usability is pretty good but it could use a little tweaking on the UI, with a clearer definition of exactly what some of the things do."
"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
"The biggest room for improvement I see in vSAN is the lack of SAN connectivity. I've kind of joked around that there is no "SAN" in vSAN. And it's something that we've worked to try and introduce some options for, and we're going to continue to work towards that."
"The customer service is good but there is a cost for it. It does not come free."
"Perhaps they could provide encryption without having to use an encryption manager."
"I lose a node in a cluster vSAN, which is also used as a cluster HA. I lose not only the storage part, which is not necessarily serious (depending on the configuration of the vSAN cluster), but on the other hand, I lose also a node of Compute, which can make things complicated quickly."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"I would like to see replication as part of it. I would also like to see direct file access, being able to run SIF shares and NFS and the like. I think that would be critical to continuing the use of it going forward."
Portworx Enterprise is ranked 2nd in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 6 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Portworx Enterprise is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Portworx Enterprise writes "A solution backed by strong customer support, that is stable and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Portworx Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation, Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, IBM Spectrum Scale and Rancher Labs, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Portworx Enterprise vs. VMware vSAN report.
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