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."Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"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."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"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."
"Being able to deploy multiple applications with virtual servers is the most valuable for us. The capacity of the system is quite constant so it's got some of the good features."
"It completely removes the need for a storage network and for a storage administrator and all of that infrastructure and the costs that are involved with them."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple."
"The most valuable feature is that it is software-defined storage. Also, being able to do maintenance on the fly is a real benefit: migrating off, updating, and then moving the guest back on to the nodes."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"The main advantage is that it's all in the box, with VMware vCenter Server product."
"This product has very good performance when it comes to virtualization storage and works well with solutions such as SAP HANA, Exadata, Hadoop, and Big Data Analytics."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"We are facing some problems with updates with the VMware vSAN. When we upgraded from version 6.5 to 7, we have been faced with many problems. They have been deploying many hotfixes for this version, and they need to continue to improve this version."
"The ability to access SAN environments with fiber channels (or even NVMe) would be a good addition."
"It can be very expensive."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten."
"I would like to be able to limit IOPS."
"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."
"I would like more integration with the hardware when it comes to disc types and supporting the newer types of storage."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
Earn 20 points
Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd 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 Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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