We performed a comparison between ScaleIO [EOL] and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."Automatic rebalancing is the feature saving administration time."
"They know how to clearly present any important data, including data flow and each drive's IOPS/bandwidth; and allow the user to easily monitor bottlenecks and problems"
"We are using it as the primary virtualization storage (both for internal corporate users and external customers) for VMware and Hyper-V virtualization platforms."
"Compared to other products in this category that are competing with Dell EMC, Dell seems to us to always come out on top."
"In my opinion, vSAN is the most natural way to migrate to a fully hyperconverged solution. If a customer needs a more scalable solution with consolidated management, vSAN is excellent."
"It is simple to manage, very easy to implement and troubleshoot in case of any failures."
"The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability."
"The most valuable feature is that it is software-defined storage. Also, being able to do maintenance on the fly is a real benefit: migrating off, updating, and then moving the guest back on to the nodes."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is easy to deploy. It is easy to create and delete virtual servers. It is easy to create the load balancing and the clustering."
"The implementation is simple, it was very straightforward. It took us approximately three weeks because it was installed in four locations."
"VMware vSAN's most valuable features are the capability to consolidate standalone physical infrastructure into virtualization and the ease of management."
"The most valuable features of vSAN are its simplicity to deploy and that we can use commodity disks in our servers without complexity or need for external storage arrays or storage specialists on our teams."
"Ecosystem around the product: There is no built-in system for viewing history data, such as volume IOPS. We have to provide graphing by Prometheus and Grafana, which would be a good new feature in ScaleIO."
"It would be nice to set minimum IOPS per volume, besides just the maximum, to be able to satisfy this demand from customers out-of-the-box, not by calculating number of disks, etc."
"There is room for improvement in the area of horizontal scaling."
"If they could introduce a write cache feature, the product would be perfect overall."
"Reporting currently depends on third party applications and that could be improved."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
"Hackers are able to manage to leak information or data from the product using some corrupt files, making it an area of major concern where improvements are required."
"Its integration with a hybrid cloud can be improved. Its scalability can also be improved so that it can be integrated with more than 32 nodes. The maximum number of nodes is okay, but our use cases could probably do with more nodes, probably up to 64. In terms of new features, it should probably have the basic support for high-speed networking spaces."
"The solution could be improved by having more filtered and multiple view volumes instead of a single view."
"As no product is 100% perfect, the price for VMware vSAN could still be improved, though it is good when compared to some of its competitors."
"The platform's cost affects the business. This particular area needs improvement."
"The platform’s pricing needs improvement. Additionally, there should be an appliance module included in it."
Earn 20 points
ScaleIO [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Software Defined Storage (SDS) while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. ScaleIO [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of ScaleIO [EOL] writes "Meets our customers' needs but they should move towards high-level scaling". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". ScaleIO [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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