VMware vSAN Benefits

VC
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

vSAN is software-defined networking. The advantage of vSAN is that if one of the servers goes down, nothing happens. In traditional SAN, if the SAN goes down, everything goes down, and your business will come to a halt. That's why we decided to go for vSAN because you have a number of servers in vSAN. 

Each server participates in creating the virtual SAN. In case one server goes down, the other servers continue to work, and the workload gets realigned to the nodes that are up. Your work doesn't get interrupted. That's why a lot of companies are moving to software-defined storage, where the storage is created through software. vSAN is also software-defined storage.

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Emmanuel Nguyen - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Anetys

With this solution, less time is needed to install three-tiered infrastructure.

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it_user581832 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior VMware Architect with 51-200 employees

It has helped us in reducing the waiting time to provision new storage devices and meet customer SLAs in order to build new VMs.

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VMware vSAN
March 2024
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SS
Infrastructure Professional Service Team Lead at G-Able

Our customers also use vSAN for storage consolidation. 

We have customers who previously relied on separate servers and storage solutions but wanted to transition to Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). 

We proposed vSAN for this purpose and utilized its standard features to migrate their existing infrastructure to vSAN.

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LM
Senior Solutions Consultant Lead at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

VMware vSAN is using its perpetual capability. All orchestration and monitoring are routed to the cloud. There are some features like vSAN Plus available for monitoring. You can utilize this web-based solution, which operates on a subscription basis. This allows for easier budgeting compared to always making capital expenditures. New managers must budget to manage infrastructure efficiently. Everything comes at a cost.

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Vebjorn Nergaard - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Engineer at Guard Automation AS

VMware vSAN has benefited our company mainly from the flexibility and redundancy. We have a two-node cluster, if one of the servers goes down, we will still be in operation. It provides high availability.

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LP
Head of the Cloud Factory Architecture & President at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

This solution has improved our organization by allowing us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance. However, it doesn't change the internal organization much.

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it_user509289 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

I'm from the cloud virtualization side of things, so consolidating the data allowed us to set up the VSAN instead of a traditional SAN, and allowed us to do faster deployments without having to interact with as many teams. It's simplified our deployment methodology a fair amount, and it gave us the better performance we're looking for from a SAN perspective.

Beyond that, it didn't change a lot how we function, necessarily, but it gave us a better tool, or a tool specific for our use case, or something that opens up the door for more. I think that the product itself is going to be paramount in other expansions and other aspects of the corporation. We'll likely keep expanding it into general computing and servers across the globe. It might help with some of the other deployments, cache centers and data centers, so that we don't necessarily have to buy SAN. It gives us the performance for the cost that really makes it attractive overall. Beyond that, I don't know.

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Yves Sandfort - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Majority Shareholder at Comdivision Consulting GmbH

vSAN improved our organization by allowing us to deploy scenarios or workloads more easily because, from a vSAN perspective, we don't need to reconfigure underlying storage or anything else. We can actually adjust for each individual machine and individual workload characteristics. We don't have to deal with different types of disk shelves, rate groups, etc. We can directly take that off.

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CP
Head of IT-Department at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

introducing vSAN dramatically increased the speed for deployment and decomissioning VMs for developers without the requierement to involve storage team

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JF
Infrastructure Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees

We have vSAN, and have built-in storage capabilities. We have many hosts, and we use the host through our providers with vSAN, with the storage. This improves everything because it is all internally between the servers. We use an NSX protocol. And what NSX does, it uses an internal network between hosts, so there is no use of an external switch. We create an internal connection between the host and the VMware product. So traffic is all internal and you can create all the firewalls and switches, everything. It becomes virtual. But, it is sometimes complicated when you try to deploy new systems or when you have to scale a system very quickly.

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EH
VP of Systems Operations at COGO LABS, INC

vSAN has improved our organization by giving us yet another high-speed data store. Previously, we were using VNX that had some Nearline-SAS drives with some SSD caching on it. But the all-flash vSAN is obviously much, much faster. We also use a Pure Storage array that we just got in a few months ago.

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BM
Head, IS Operations & Infrastructure at IM Medical Centre for Health

When we went to vSAN, at that point in time, we doubled the density of our desktops per host and, for the first time ever, I could demonstrate a significantly lower TCO for a VDI desktop versus a rich or fat client.

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it_user335178 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO/CTO at Bay State Health (VertitechIT)

Probably the biggest benefit we get is the replacement of the SANS and it's purely a cost one. To give you an idea, we spend roughly 50% less on equivalent storage by using VSAN to replace our more traditional SAN architecture. Further, the operating costs are 20, 30 percent less. The ability to scale our storage as we need it is far simpler with VSAN than buying the more traditional route. So I would argue that that's probably the single best feature we get.

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MH
Infrastructure Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

vSAN has improved the organization just based on the overall speed. It's a lot faster than what we what we've used in the past. The old-school storage systems were kind of slow and cumbersome. This is much faster. It's much more reliable.

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it_user335802 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Cloud Architect at Tribune Media

VSAN is really simple to manage. Its GUI is part of the eco-system so it looks and feels like the rest of VMware. So a VMware engineer or a VMware operations guy's is going to be able to manage the provision storage without having to touch an array, which is generally higher profile so there's a cost reduction through headcount.

VSAN manageability is much easier because it's in and part of the vSphere world, so it looks and feels like any other object that people are used to seeing metrics on and there have been great improvement in management. In 655, there's a little bit of lack information. In the newer system, there's a lot more data about what's going on in that system, in the GUI, easily consumable.

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KM
Senior Server Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has improved our organization in a way of scaling it. 

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VA
R&D Architect at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We provide and manufacture our own local storage. With our own storage, we can path that with the host. So, it's beneficial for us to have a local storage attached to a host which vSAN is awesome for that.

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PL
Systems Administrator at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

It's improved the organization overall primarily because the storage is local on the boxes. Before we were with vSAN, we were with another iSCSI product which was a clustered product that went across the network. We had multiple instances where we would have either a network hiccup (caused by us) or a network hiccup (caused by the device). This took a whole bunch of VMs down with a lot of repercussions. It took a long time to recover. By eliminating dependency on that back-end storage, we now depend on everything that's in the VMkernel with vSAN. So, we eliminate the middleman.

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JL
IT Manager at VelocityEHS

vSAN improved our organization by taking a whole bunch of servers that we had that were depreciated and letting us remove all of those workloads and put them on one, centralized solution, and have great storage in the back end. It's really helped us consolidate a lot of workloads that were in different silos, and now we're back to managing everything from one place.

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MC
Team Lead System Integration at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Reduced complexity. We don't have to worry about the physical SAN anymore. That makes it easier. The learning curve as well, when people learn vSAN, they find it very easy to manage compared to a physical SAN.

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RT
Senior Network Engineer at Reliance Standard Life Insurance

The benefit is easier deployment of storage. We don't have to order a storage system, we can just use whatever we have on hand and roll it into our virtualization system.

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HB
Principal Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

As a function of our core business, it's a sought after tool that helps us provide analytical support across a wide spectrum of client needs. It's allowed us to test out in our connected restaurant - "TheWorks" - a fully-functional restaurant experience center that allows our clients to discover the value of our connected solutions firsthand. We deploy vSAN in this customer-like environment within a hyperconvergent infrastructure (HCI) to give our clients a better understanding and help optimize data and the end-users' experience.

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it_user616041 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

vSAN allowed for the expansion of our Public Library Patron computer environment into a three-node VMware cluster using commodity servers. This eliminated the need for expensive disk arrays and controllers while providing greater reliability and performance.

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it_user589482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

vSAN significantly reduced the complexity of our data center failover along with the data center design requirements.

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it_user335157 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Cloud Carib

The simplicity to provisioned VMs and applied policy to specific VMs for our customers is one of the most important features for us without having to separate the area of storage like we had before with our traditional storage system. As a cloud provider the biggest challenge with storage is that you get completely mixed workloads. You don't know what the customers will be landing on. So, there is no way to predict the storage performance needs of a customer before they actually start using the systems.

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Muzamil Yakub - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Infoview Limited

The solution has benefited our organization from all the consolidation features, such as disaster recovery and backups.

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MR
AVP at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

[We deployed it for our customer]

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JM
Engineer at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

It has helped break down the silos, and we have not needed a separate storage team since the introduction of vSAN.

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TW
Engineering Specialist at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

It has changed the way we design our infrastructure. We're looking at a new infrastructure.

Also, it allows us to put our infrastructure in remote locations and still get the same performance we get from our onsite SAN solutions.

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it_user305391 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at SynchroNet

Benefits are being able to grow as needed. We don't have to drop half a million on a SAN for all the storage that we may or may not use and it just eases the pain of a lot of storage. You still have to deal with the, the networking of it, making sure that everything is networked together, but that radically simplifies the storage administration piece.

Some of the problems that I have with, traditional SANS whenever I'm administering them is, whenever I do edit operations I have to be extremely careful. It requires a lot of planning up front to deploy the LUNs. To make sure everything matches all the way through from end to end. So that when I know have a data store, you know, one, whenever I turn it off on the SAN after I’m done using it, I'm not turning off the wrong one and taking down the entire environment. Things like that. You know, I don't have to deal with that 'cause it's just one data store and it does what I need it to do.

So, another big use case that we do is Horizon View for VDI customers. We use it internally and the contrast between our internal use, which is off of an NFS store, contrasting that with a VSAN, deployment is like night and day. Our internal one is kind of slow and kludgy. It's not a big central part of our day to day work so it doesn't impact us as much but I can see how big the difference is between the performance of a Horizon View deployment on an NFS target is compared to how tightly it works with VSAN and how much performance and throughput VSAN does with the, the read and write caching with the flash drives. We haven't got to mess a lot with the flash, all-flash VSAN, yet, but I'm sure we will soon here.

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DD
Director - DC & Hybrid Cloud Presales Lead for APAC at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

There are definitely cost benefits. There is also no OEM dependency. I can reach out to any OEM and deploy VMware vSAN. 

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ED
Senior System Engineer at VAKIFBANK

It helped to reduce storage costs.

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RL
Product Operations at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Considering that we have many storage arrays, this seems to keep us a little bit more contained and it's easier to manage versus some of the legacy storage where we don't have manageability, or we're losing manageability for it.

We have greater uptimes, we're not down nearly as much, and we can identify and deal with solutions to problems that we're encountering in those environments.

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GL
Manager, Technical Systems at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The opportunity gained with the relationship we have now is limitless, as new features and products roll out, especially with today's announcements: the news about microsegmentation, the RDS in the cloud with AWS, as well as some security features. It's a constant evolution for us. That's really why we're with vSAN.

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it_user616041 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Allows for the expansion of our public library patron computer environment into a three-node VMware cluster using commodity servers
  • Eliminates the need for expensive disk arrays and controllers
  • Provides greater reliability and performance
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it_user587577 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer at a non-profit

I am able to utilize ESX HW at my robo sites without needing to add a SAN or NAS.

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it_user245385 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Infrastructure and Operations at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees

The biggest benefit is cost, so for someone looking to deploy low cost storage, but something that integrates with their virtualization architecture. It's a very good fit for smaller companies who have multiple nodes, and can leverage commodity hardware to go with that. VSAN, by its architecture itself, has inbuilt features for reliability, for load balancing. You could enable VCRE cache, along with VSAN, so it works and integrates with a lot of other VMware technologies.

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it_user316422 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization & Storage Administrator at Franklin University

The cost. We had a directive from the CIO to check out and play with VSAN and then to do storage cheaper and better than before, which we have achieved.

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JK
Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

By using VMware vSAN we have limited the need to maintain multiple physical servers. Additionally, we have been able to reduce the entire cost of the IT operation and management because of the reduction of physical servers. There are fewer electricity and cooling systems needed.

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RS
Works

It consolidated our workload and brought the cost down over a long.

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SN
Senior Systems Administration at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has helped us reach a much higher satisfaction rate in our VDI deployments. With the VDI, we didn't really focus on an ROI, although we did see some ROI benefits.

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it_user618141 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager-IT Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Working in the banking and finance industry, speed is of paramount importance to us since we deal in with millions of records fetching data everyday. vSAN helped us to leverage this and speed up the response time from our applications to the end-users.

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it_user617412 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I’m a consultant, so I don’t have vSAN in my organization. But customers take this solution to increase efficiency, scalability and ease of management.

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it_user618141 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager-IT Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Since I am working in the banking and finance industry, speed is of paramount importance to us since we deal with millions of records fetching data everyday. vSAN helped us to leverage this and speed up the response time from our applications to the end users.

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it_user611970 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Virtualization & Systems and Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We face the same challenges most organisations do; probably the most common one being that of keeping up with growth and expansion, while keeping within the budgets. vSAN is very scalable, so we can plan our costs well in advance, knowing that additional nodes will be expanding both our compute and storage resources.

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it_user509292 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Computacenter

We are a partner and we're using Virtual SAN for nearly more than half of our customers, VMware-based customers, and we use it as the basis for DMZ environments, production environments, and DR sites. It's getting a lot better to sell VMware solutions and to make the customer happy.

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it_user304773 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The great thing about VSAN in terms of resiliency and recoverability is the fact that with policy-based storage, you can actual decide what level of recoverability you want, what level of redundancy you want. This no longer the case of trying to figure out complex RAID-systems or anything like that. You set the policy, and you will get the level of redundancy and resiliency that you want. Something that has been in the enterprise space for quite sometime, with some of the more expensive arrays, now you can bring it down into the commercial even the mid-market space. That's pretty amazing.

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it_user101577 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It offers a lower cost of growth for a lot of our customers. They can meet immediate needs, but don’t need to spend a lot of money now. Balancing between capital budget and operational budget, instead of buying SAN to SAN, they can buy what they need now and then have operational costs after that.

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Vishal Bhatia - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

It's a massive shift now to have it in the portfolio and to have a complete software-defined data center.

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AW
Systems Engineer at Colorado College

It helped us survive power outages in one of our data centers, then continued to function without a hitch.

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it_user581820 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We are able to deploy vSAN clusters to remote locations very easily at a fraction of the cost. This saves us time and money. We don’t have to worry about stability issues.

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it_user315390 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's lowered our storage costs while still maintaining High Availability and with easy installation.

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it_user312501 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of IT Infrastructure and Operations at a university with 501-1,000 employees

If it works out well, storage is our most important element of our infrastructure. We're looking for a stable and high performing solution and think this is it.

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it_user618129 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company

We had several servers we used in our VMware cluster, as well as a storage device. The implementation of vSAN reduced the rack space, since we no longer required several slots in the cabinet to rack a storage device. vSAN also made it very easy for us to scale out. Power consumption was also reduced within our datacentre.

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it_user613560 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Management of the environments is overall simpler, allowing for during-hours patching with no downtime and little risk; also allowing us to stay more current with patching, reducing the overall risk of the environments.

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it_user315672 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Administrator II at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Concrete benefits would be manageability; we don’t have a storage guy because there is less stuff to deal with.

The savings is not the issue but I can scale my system – I’m building the node for 200 users, but all I will have to do is order another host and it will be configured exactly the same, and they are over-provisioned in terms of memory.

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it_user315648 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Storage and System Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's cost effective because you can start small and grow as needed.

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it_user315369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Field Support Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Previously, we couldn’t consolidate more workloads on different types of storage. Now with VSAN, we have the ability to virtualize across multiple data centers.

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it_user1111455 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at AAnnex

The newer versions of this solution are much more stable and easier to manage.

We had a near meltdown with 5.5, upgrading firmware and vSphere versions is a hassle.

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MF
Sys Admin II at a retailer

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.

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GR
Principal Enterprise Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It's a little too early to tell what the benefits are. We've only implemented it over the past three to six months.

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JB
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It gave us the ability to get the storage-processing and CPU power that we needed in remote areas. It's something like "the big bullet in a small gun", where it actually works and does what it needs to do. It's very useful for what we need it to do.

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EB
Senior Security Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We gained fantastic performance with the benefit of simplifying the whole hardware stack requiring less sum of knowledge to run and maintain.

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AK
Principal Technical Consultant at Fujitsu Consulting India

Firstly, I want to offer an example in terms of the deployment process and manageability of the vSAN storage environment. vSphere admins can handle all infra tasks and, due to policy based storage, we can manage the I/O performance as well.

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it_user614595 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Network Administrator at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees

Provisioning virtual machines has been simplified, as there is no provisioning/management of the separate storage layer and it is no more in question.

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it_user574359 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engagement Cloud Solution Architect - Ericsson Cloud Services at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

It increases the performance of the virtual machines and reduces the TCO for storage deployment.

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AS
VDI Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's definitely cheaper to buy it piece by piece, instead of an entire shelf at a time.

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JL
Supervisor at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's more scalable and faster than what we had, and it's easier to support.

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reviewer909960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is not yet deployed, we are just starting to explore how vSAN can benefit us. it seems very expensive to obtain a vSAN license.

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PT
Works at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Teams required to manage the storage for the entire VDI infrastructure were not required after implementing the vSAN solution. Any seasoned VMware engineer can easily manage the whole vSAN without any issues. 

It is simple to manage, very easy to implement and troubleshoot in case of any failures.

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it_user625113 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I'm working as a consultant, so I can’t directly say how it helped my customer. But I know that my customer started to equip some branches with our building block and it replaces NetApp filers. We are using a building block of two vSAN nodes and the wireness appliances in the main datacenter. With the next release of our building block, based on vSphere 6.5 and vSAN 6.5, we are switching to direct cabling, so no 10GbE switch is needed for vSAN traffic.

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it_user618966 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Development at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are moving faster every day and are developing new systems and services all the time. We expect the amount of projects this year to be 4-5 times as many as last year and we will be able to support that growth with this solution.

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it_user610440 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • No need for additional storage
  • Hypervisor can provide storage as well
  • Integration in a virtualization stack
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it_user593439 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We can deploy new servers faster than ever. Our capacity to grow is bigger than when we had SAN storage dependency. We are now able to deploy a pool of QA virtual machines for testing purposes in minutes rather than in hours.

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it_user590448 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution reduced the deployment administration of the storage components.

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it_user315378 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

It saves us the expense of an all-flash array. All-flash would work for us, but VSAN is cheaper. I think that this solution is really new, but it has real benefits over all-flash arrays.

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GN
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The solution works well to help businesses simplify their administration. They unify the technology in boxes like vSAN. You see the performance improvements in the configuration with All-Flash.

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MP
Trainer in information and communication technologies at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

The solution allows our technicians to deploy multiple lab environments for different classes at any time, without requiring any manual installation.

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AP
System Specialist at Techedge

It has improved our organization in all situations.

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it_user473589 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization System Administrator. at a integrator with 51-200 employees

It is precisely the possibility of being able to extend the capacities of the cluster of storage and calculation by the simple addition of one or more physical server which makes us lean on this solution in a secure way.

Moreover, with the storage policy, we were able to create different security policies depending on the virtual machines according to their needs for performance or availability.

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MB
Data Center Engineer at Strategic Solutions of Virginia

The benefits that we're seeing are directly related to our customers. They have better experiences using their EMR and practice management systems.

The manageability is better, it's definitely fully integrated into the VMware stack so it's very easy to use from the web client.

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it_user315327 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's relatively low-cost for a high-performance solution. By using VSAN, we've been able to simplify our infrastructure considerably.

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SP
System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We were able to replace lots of negative servers and replace them with VMware.

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it_user618969 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and System Administrator with 51-200 employees

The virtualization itself really helped me as a network and system administrator with a lot of servers to maintain. That's a pain. A virtualized environment is really easy to manage. Almost everything is in one dashboard. This really gives us more time in our research and innovation, and less time for maintenance or upgrades.

The minimal downtime alone is a winning blow for both the management and the ITs. Unexpected downtime is inevitable. It's been part any organization. Addressing that pitfall really gives an edge (from a business perspective).

Long-term savings in both buying more server in the future and absolutely the power consumption, not to mention the data center space it released or freed.

The mobility, flexibility, and scalability are really amazing and astonishing features.

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it_user587592 - PeerSpot reviewer
R&D Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Currently, the work style of our organization has changed; when we get new projects, we can rapidly handle them.

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OE
Business Development Manager at iVolve Technologies

the come feedback always I here from our client is that vSAN Simplified Operations and ease of administration.

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FL
System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's cost-effective.

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RB
Manager at IRSANE TECH
it_user574359 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engagement Cloud Solution Architect - Ericsson Cloud Services at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
it_user621819 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect with 501-1,000 employees

vSAN is a very cost-effective solution for just about any data center. It is very easy to deploy, scale and manage. The entire solution is built on commodity hardware, so customers do not have to break the bank (or budget) to invest in this technology compared to a much more costly centralized storage array.

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it_user610437 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The ease of managing and configuring vSAN. This means that all our VMware administrators are now able to do the daily maintenance and operations. Previously, only a couple of IT administrators were responsible for maintaining our previous storage solution and the complex tasks that came with it.

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it_user572724 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Architect at Grupo Sothis

Having a single data store for virtual machines, the production of IT administrators has improved because they do not need to work with many LUNs and storage.

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NP
General Manager Sales at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Previously, we were using three-tier architecture. Therefore, we would have three different consoles. However, after adopting a CA solution, we are only on a single console and we have cut down the EU engineers we needed as we didn't require multiple engineers for managing multiple layers. Now, we have a single engineer who can manage everything from the top layer from a single console.

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TM
President & CEO at McMillan Consulting

As a VAR, it has been about gaining expertise in the platform. Additionally, it has allowed us to benchmark against traditional systems. We are now in a good position to help our clients decide when and where to deploy this solution.

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QH
Presales engineering, Data center solution architect at SYSTEC TECHNOLOGY INC.

vSAN can help customers save on storage system costs, and also save on the human cost. For an SI (like us), vSAN can save tech service time and easily deploy for maintenance.

VMware vSphere with vSAN HCI system: It is easy to train customers to operate the system even if they have or do not have a VMware operator KB. Most customers can save tech service time via vSAN. vSAN is easy for deploying and maintenance, so some customers can do service themselves.

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it_user315789 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Sequel Data Systems
  • All built within hypervisor
  • Easily stood up with hardware you already have
  • Truly virtualized storage
  • Get rid of all hardware, and you get a much smaller footprint
  • Nodes can be in different datacenter, and so can stretch cluster
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it_user233772 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The total cost of ownership, as it's really cheap for us and we have budgetary constraints. Plus, as we're a hospital, doctors need to access their patient data quickly, which VSAN allows them to do.

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it_user938985 - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

vSAN has improved our organization by allowing us to perform faster workflows, get better overall performance, and create some really new solutions.

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it_user574458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It accelerated our P2V plan.

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it_user1254525 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder/CEO at StorSolv

VMware vSAN has greatly reduced refresh spending. 

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it_user316464 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We've decreased the time it takes for us to roll out new solutions. It's sped up that process for us.

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it_user609789 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Virtualization at DataLine LLC

It’s simple: We are service provider and if a solution can give us new opportunities, it is a good solution. We can build economically effective IaaS clusters on top of vSAN.

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it_user315741 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Advisor IT Architecture for Cloud Computing Solutions at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • Price
  • We don’t need special network or hardware, just add a new network card
  • If you have 10GB, you can just go with vSAN
  • All-flash gives improved performance over hybrid, and competes with other solutions
  • If combined with Horizon, it lowers the price of solution
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it_user315600 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think that it brings speed and security as we have patient-sensitive data that we need to store.

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AS
Server Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Previously, we were going to use traditional systems, so when vSAN was launched it gave us a lot of value. The admins have been able to relax a bit, they don't have as many outages to deal with.

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it_user693828 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

For a PaaS platform which I’ve developed, the scalability of VMware vSAN was a necessary feature enabling us to grow with the onboard customers.

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it_user588603 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Management at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is less costly than typical storage and faster to set up than a typical SAN. It does not require “storage competency.”

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it_user280782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We can manage capacity and performance in linear fashion.

We get better performance with a better cost efficiency.

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PT
IT Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's supposed to provide low-cost for storage arrays to do VDI. We're on the fence with it. We're still looking at other solutions. We're not sold on it.

It has provided some value when it's working. Instead of hitting our production SAN array, it has its own array, storage-wise. It keeps workload off production.

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AO
Integration & IT at a energy/utilities company with 11-50 employees

The management of servers was easy from a central standpoint. The server rooms were less cluttered as servers were virtual and easy to manage.

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it_user316428 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage and Virtualization Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees

The cost. VSAN allows us to do storage cheaper and better than before.

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VMware vSAN
March 2024
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