We performed a comparison between Springpath [EOL] and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"If we decide to expand, vSAN could offer us some flexibility. We are researching ways to set this up from a new data center, which is located somewhere different from the current location right now."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"It scales well. We have plenty of room to grow."
"The most valuable features are secure IOPs and LAN security."
"The vSAN features we've found most helpful are live application migrations and storage policies. It has storage, policies, application, and DRS policies. Automation is there."
"We can scale it very easily for a test environment. We were able to segment our DMZ so it wasn't connected to anything, which we really liked."
"All the features are working great."
"Technical support is good."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
"They should provide Deduplication and Compression over the hybrid drives."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
"There's a lot that can be done to segregate. That may be available now in vSAN 7, I suppose, however, the deduplication and compression can be segregated."
"If one node out of your ten nodes fails, it takes a lot of time to replicate and rebalance VMware vSAN. This time can be reduced. When a node fails and the data is not accessible, vSAN has to be rebalanced to make the redundancy level of two again. However, if it is taking a lot of time and any other hardware fails during that time, then we have a problem. Two disk failures mean that all data will be lost, and we may have to recover it from the backup. So, the number of threads that run to do the rebalancing could be more so that the time taken to make it fully redundant again is not so much."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
"There is always a challenge with their firmware."
"I would like to see more support for applications. I think currently it only supports applications between two vSAN clusters."
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Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Springpath [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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