We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hitachi Vantara and others in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays."What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"Very good VCG notification feature."
"VMware vSAN has greatly reduced refresh spending."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is the ease of management. VMware vSAN it's a part of VMware ESXi and when you do patching for VMware ESXi, VMware vSAN receives the patches too."
"All the features are working great."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"I like the tolerance of VMware vSAN."
"It easily integrates with all types of storage."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"The file functionality could be better."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"I would like to see it be more hardware-agnostic. Other than that, the only other complication is - and it has gotten better with the newer versions - that lately, once you're running an all-flash, if you need to grow or scale down your infrastructure, it's a long process. You need to evacuate all data and make sure you have enough space on the host, then add more hosts or take out hosts. That process is a little bit complex. You cannot scale as needed or shrink as needed."
"I would have liked it to have been more scalable. It's scalable but not as much as, for example, the ScaleIO systems were or the Kaminario"
"When you upgrade the vSAN, there are some issues like lost data and problems with the log. The log disappears. When you upgrade the solution, you must have several logs, so if you have some problems, you can check the log server to find them."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
"If the support could be provided more quickly, it would be very helpful."
"Licensing costs are a little too high for smaller sized companies."
"The solution could maybe improve failure protection."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
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DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 12th in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 11 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, Tintri VMstore and NetApp AFF, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
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