We performed a comparison between Springpath [EOL] and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"vSAN provides default HA configurations, where if any host goes down, the VM moves around within the host. Even though the disks are local, the VMs moves around with the vSAN disk and vSAN provides a high availability on its own."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is you do not have to use additional hardware for storage. The operation of VMware vSAN does not take a lot of effort. If you have VMware technology on your site, then it's easy for the operational support of the system."
"I like vSAN because they release features incrementally, every year, and you don't have to upgrade your hardware to get those features. If you bought a traditional SAN, you would have to upgrade your hardware constantly, every three years: You would get it, and it is how it is for three years. But on vSAN, you upgrade when you have to, when your hardware gets old or when you need more capacity. It's great, you get new features constantly."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"Provides good performance as well as integration with deployment tools."
"The most valuable feature for our customers is vMotion. It allows them to shut down virtual machines and migrate them to others servers."
"The valuable features of vSAN are that you can get it up and running quickly, you get redundancy built-in, and it's pretty much the perfect solution for a cluster."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
"Reporting currently depends on third party applications and that could be improved."
"They can improve the manageability of the solution to make it more simple. It is not that complicated, but it will be good if they can make it more simple."
"The server files are larger than before."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
"They should provide Deduplication and Compression over the hybrid drives."
"This solution would benefit from better collaboration with Cisco for driver updates."
"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."
Earn 20 points
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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