We performed a comparison between Vblock [EOL] and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"Systems run solidly."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"Instead of going for SAN storage, customers can use the scale-up and scale-out features of VMware vSAN."
"VMware has been around for a long time are are doing a decent job at catching up with the latest technologies i.e. bringing in kubernetes and containerization. Overall, this is a great tool for virtualization."
"The most valuable thing about vSAN is that all of its features have been working well for us for the past two years. We haven't had an issue with them."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"You get the benefit of local storage, but you have the protection of shared storage."
"The most important feature to me, in my role, is cost. In the renewal cycle for storage, it was about a 40 percent saving compared to going to an all-flash array, which is what we first looked at doing. Secondly, performance: we need clinical data access in five seconds and need to do everything we can to retain that metric. Thirdly, I was really pleasantly surprised during the data migration across to vSAN, that it happened almost instantly whereas, in the past, migrating from array to array was an arduous and fraught process."
"The solution is easy to use."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"This is quite an expensive solution."
"The platform’s pricing needs improvement. Additionally, there should be an appliance module included in it."
"Reporting currently depends on third party applications and that could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in vSAN's ability to debug. When it's not working well, debugging becomes quite challenging. Identifying issues when it's lagging or not functioning properly can be difficult."
"It could be cheaper."
"Troubleshooting tools could be improved."
"Based on my testing, I would like to expand deduplication to include hybrid deployments and not just for all-flash deployments."
"The pricing could be better when it comes to renewing the licenses."
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Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Vblock [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex.
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