We performed a comparison between SteelFusion 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 available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"It scales well. We have plenty of room to grow."
"The solution is simple to use compared to other solutions, such as Hyperflex, VxRail, and Nutanix"
"The technical support is good."
"The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability."
"While we haven't made major changes to our disaster recovery and business continuity processes yet, moving towards stretch vSAN across sites will simplify and expedite our DR processes in the future."
"Storage is expandable with no extra cost."
"Its ease of use is most valuable. It is easy to configure, and there is a unified interface, which makes things slightly easier."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to continue our business needs and have higher visibility. It has definitely increased our business productivity levels."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
"It would be ideal if clients didn't need to monitor the solution on a daily basis."
"The UI could certainly be better. The inside into what's actually going on with vSAN would be nice to know."
"There's already a concern with VMware with ransomware and security issues. VMware could focus on improving security."
"They can package it in a way that is specific to the hardware infrastructure and the hardware platform. It should stay fairly up to date with the drivers and the manufacturer issues. The problem with uncoupling the proprietary technology and component capabilities is that by uncoupling them, you run into some concerns or challenges over the poor performance model. These concerns really come when you start talking about high performance, high bandwidth, and high availability types of environments. While vSAN is a leader, in a critical view, it is not about being cost-effective. It is more about the immediate impact of money loss to the business in critical applications where we want to maintain a continuous operational 59 model. It is, however, good for QA/QC tasks. I don't necessarily know how it works in regards to VDI or virtual desktop infrastructure."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
"I would love for this product to be cheaper and easier to configure."
"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."
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SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. SteelFusion is rated 9.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), 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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