VMware vSAN Previous Solutions

Lipaz Hessel - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

I'm still using a different solution. I only took two servers with vSAN to support one application that needs one feature that only VMware has. If not for that feature, I wouldn't touch VMware.

Now, I'm looking at products like Nutanix, Silver Peak, Flexione, and FortiGate. For products that I choose, I don't need a specialist of that vendor. In VMware, I need a specialist in VMware.

That's the issue I have with VMware. It's not like I can take any IT person, and they will know what to do. I need to make sure he will do the call, get the certificate and time to practice.

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Emmanuel Nguyen - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Anetys

We prefer to use Nutanix but if the customer wants to use VMware vSAN, we have no choice.  

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

We were not using any other solution previously. This is our first attempt at the software-defined storage system and Nimble is our product for testing purposes.

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

For successful business continuity, we have to use Site Recovery Manager. However, customers are pushing for more options. They'd like to see other solutions that might be a better fit for their specific needs. So, they use different third-party tools for disaster recovery.

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ZM
Network Administrator at Mzansi Security and Fire

I have experience with Oracle.

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

We've been using traditional SAN for a long time. Our engineers had to do test with an initial project to do some developer builds, and they wanted some persistent VMs, and they wanted humongous amounts of storage in them, because they're crazy people. The goal was to give them some virtual machines to replace all these physical machines that they had, because whenever they mess up a machine and they want to rebuild, it takes a long time. You have to rebuild the whole machine, give it back to them, and then they have to build it out all over again.

Using the VDI solution, Horizon View, and VSAN made it actually cost-effective, because if we were try to do the amount of storage that they were looking for on the VMs with traditional SAN, it would have cost us a lot more than anybody's willing to spend or to endure. The VSAN made it very possible and gave us the performance needed to actually facilitate and even perform better on the VMs than they do on the physical boxes that they were using, which is good. It all helped.

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LN
Director at SOFTLOGIC

We previously worked with Nutanix, which HP bought. At the beginning, we were also working with a free solution called KVM. There was no licensing cost with them, but there was also no real support and the customers were afraid of that. They wanted something that is known in the market. We also worked with Dell in the past.

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

We previously used Legacy 3-tier storage architecture with a multi-tier disk approach.

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Devendra-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We previously used Nutanix and I was very happy using Prism. We ended up with vSAN following a bidding process.

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Michael Tsang - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In addition to VMware vSAN, we have HPE SimpliVity and Nutanix.

VMware vSAN operates at the software level, whereas SimpliVity operates at the hardware level. The price of SimpliVity is higher than a software-based product.

The disadvantage to VMware, operating at the software level, is that you have to have more resources.

The bottom line is that it's cheaper and easier to set up VMware vSAN.

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GP
Senior Software and Systems Engineer at SAMU.IT

We are only selling Sempre Solution, and vSAN, vSphere for VMware.

We have 15 customers using Sempre.

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AR
Infrastructure Engineer at Boys Town

We were having some problems with another software-defined storage vendor so we switched to vSAN. We had problems with the previous vendor's support. While I have never talked to VMware vSAN support, I've talked to GSS, but I've never had issues with GSS, other than their not calling you back right away.

For me, the most important criteria when selecting a vendor are

  • ease of use
  • single pane of glass - that is huge for me
  • enterprise class, obviously
  • availability.
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DM
Director Of IT Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We were using traditional converged infrastructure with storage, network, and compute tiers. We had a mandate from a U.S. government entity that required physical separation of a lot of our infrastructure. Thus, we had we had an urgent need to duplicate everything we had. So it was a technology refresh.

There were a handful of important criteria when selecting a vendor: 

  • ease of use
  • scalability
  • price.
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RO
Supervisor at RSM US LLP

What made us go with this solution was price point. When you can utilize existing storage infrastructure, and not have to continually purchase new SAN products out there that are going up in price as time goes by, then it's a wonderful thing.

When selecting a vSAN vendor, the most important criteria were 

  • stability
  • dependability
  • ease of use
  • experience.

I've been using VMware for many years, and I'm still using it. That's a testament to how well it works.

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Ryan Dave Brigino - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Es'hailSat

We did not previously use any other solution.

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MC
Senior Manager IT Services at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is the first one that we used.

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

The choice of VSAN was almost made for us. And let me step back for a minute and say it's not particularly the product, although we love the product, it's where we suggested after quite a lot of testing of other-of other competing products, we knew that traditional SAN architecture and the cost of deploying it, maintaining it, was unsustainable. Our budgets in healthcare IT are flat. No one's giving us extra money. But, with all the images and the doctors and the sharing of data, the need to store data is not being held flat. It's going way up.

We simply don't have the money. So we needed some new, way to address storage. And that meant software defined storage. So that was a given. The next step was we needed something that would provide the levels of service we have, and stability we have with the traditional architecture but at far less price. That's where VSAN shone. That's where when we did all the necessary testing and reviews VSAN acted in a secure performance and cost, areas needed.

The selection of VSAN, it's really part of a larger hyper-convergence model and for technical reasons and for simplicity, we wanted products. If we were going to move our entire, siloed approach of storage here, processing here, networking there, onto one single platform, we wanted all of those abilities buried into the extraction or the hypervisor level itself. We didn't want to buy independent little products and snap them in so to speak. Really, that means the only solution suite was the VMware world of products -- NSX for networking, VSAN for storage, and vCloud for everything else. So it really was a no brainer. That was really the essential relationship between VSAN and the other products.

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AV
Director at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We used Nutanix with VMware for about a year, and then we switched over to the packaged solution with VMware. 

Dell has got a product called VxRail, which incorporates vSAN. So, it's a packaged solution. We've now implemented VxRail, and it is a new experience with them. VxRail is an all-in solution, but there might be an additional cost that you have to pay to get the support at the vSAN level.

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MA
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

In my previous company, I worked with Nutanix. In my current company, I'm working with vSAN. Nutanix is much simpler from an interface point of view. vSAN, as a part of VMware, has more maturity in terms of features and software-defined data center journey. VMware is more mature than Nutanix in this area.

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

The company has been around for quite a while, so we go back to some of the earliest days of spinning disks and a local, small data center at the corporate office, to the point now where we've grown to have our own data center and racks upon racks upon racks of storage.

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CG
Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were end-of-life on our previous storage and looking at replacements. It made sense to look at something that was going to integrate both the servers and the storage.

The most important criteria, for me, when selecting a vendor are

  • reputation
  • ease of use
  • value.

We went with vSAN because of cost and ultimate value. Ease of use and the cost, compared to some of the alternatives, were pretty compelling. I also liked that we could choose whatever hardware we wanted, rather than having to use one particular vendor.

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it_user335802 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Cloud Architect at Tribune Media

We chose it from a cost perspective. In media we are always looking to save money. It's a publicly traded company so the money I give back is smiled on. We saw a way not to pay maintenance for expensive systems and to run it in a system that performs on parallel with what we already own.

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DR
Senior Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We knew from doing the DR project and from having some issues with our production vSphere that we needed some type of solution to help us out, to keep it off the production network. But we did not have a product before this one. This is a new product for us.

For us, the most important criteria when selecting a new vendor are

  • ease of use, because we have an operations group that we need to worry about
  • cost is always up there
  • the future of it - making sure it has a future because we hate to get something and then, after a year or so, it goes out-of-support and no one is using it anymore and there are no upgrades.
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KH
IT Project Manager at a museum or institution with 11-50 employees

We used VMware but not vSAN.

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

We had out-of-the-box solutions. When vSAN came in, all the local storage became attached. The solution has improved a lot considering the local storage for vSAN configuration.

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

Up until about a year-and-a-half ago, we were using physical SANs. Space is a problem in our environments that we deploy, so we knew we had to get rid of the physical SAN and go toward the more virtual environment. The number of nodes we deploy, we need them. By integrating the vSAN, we're able to get the space requirements we need.

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RT
Senior Network Engineer at Reliance Standard Life Insurance

We use in-place storage systems, but I wanted to be able to spin something up quickly, for the development side, for our clusters. Since it's not a permanent thing, it's much easier to go in and re-do it without having to re-blow-out a whole storage system. It works well.

When selecting a vendor, what's important for me are support and value. The support is especially important. When I have a problem I need solutions. And return on investment is very big for me. I want to make sure that when we buy something, it's going to return the investment very quickly.

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WS
Senior System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

We were previously using Microsoft Hyper-V.

VMware vSAN is more professional than Microsoft Hyper-V for this kind of application. The scalability for VMware is better than  Microsoft. There are limitations in Microsoft Hyper-V. and many applications support VMware vSAN, such as Oracle, Cisco, and Linux.

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

We have a Nutanix environment running in production as well. We chose VMware vSAN for several reasons. First, the vSAN solution is part of the ESXi kernel. This allows for the product to be very fast with little overhead. Secondly, vSAN is included in the Enterprise Plus version of ESXi which, compared to competing products, provides a great cost savings.

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

This was our first time moving to a HCI storage solution.

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it_user335157 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Cloud Carib

So the way that we found out about Virtual SAN, we kept running into performance problems and capacity problems with our current storage that we had before. With all storage that we had and Virtual SAN is a radically different approach. So we were intrigued by that and, after testing it, we realized that all of our requirements were met by this approach. So some of the criteria that we look at when we evaluate vendors is the credibility of the vendor in the industry. The support history that we have with them, customer references.

So with VMware, we know that VMware is already used by everybody in the Fortune 500. Huge companies globally rely on VMware for day to day operations. So, we’re fully con=fident in basically running all of our infrastructure through the VMware technologies.

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Muzamil Yakub - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Infoview Limited

I have worked with other solutions, such as Hyper-V and Citrix. Our preference is always VMware.

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

We switched from traditional deployment to HCI in order to scale and ease management to cope with a large number of applications

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

For HCI, we didn't have anything else in place. For servers, this was our introduction to HCI. We have other products for VDI, but not for server workloads.

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it_user305391 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at SynchroNet

We've been a strong VMware partner for a long time and we saw, my direct boss is John Nickelson, he's a vExpert, a huge, huge, huge storage person. He really identified the value that it was going to bring and how, impressive the technology was to have this, you know, kind of decoupling from the, you know, the big SAN box that sits in the corner and it really makes a lot of sense for certain use cases.

Some use cases where a traditional SAN is the right move, you know, if you want the capacity and stuff like that but the VSAN really helps especially with the VDI. That was where our biggest play was initially, was Horizon View mixed with VSAN.

We usually will do a four node deployment. That's in our opinion, the best configuration. Three nodes the minimum, but we like to do four so we can do rolling upgrades without losing our n+1 fault tolerance, and so, when we initially started using this, and technically it was before I started working there. When we initially started using this, we'd roll it out and just take advantage of the performance improvement that it would make. Getting the right cache with the flash drives, you know, allowed us to spin up, spin down, fast log-in times, fast application delivery. Really makes a difference.

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SM
Manager at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

I didn't really use a different version of the solution. Most of the time I had been using ESX environment, and that was one of the reasons for going ahead with vSAN.

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

We chose VMware vSAN for these reasons:

  • It is part of the ESXi kernel. This allows for the product to be very fast with little overhead.
  • It is included in the Enterprise Plus version of ESXi. Compared with competing products, it provides great cost savings.

We have a Nutanix environment running in production as well.

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

We deploy many other solutions for our customers, such as Hyper-V, which some of them prefer.

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MS
IT Infrastructure Manager at a retailer with 11-50 employees

I previously used Hyper-V from Microsoft, but there were many issues and lots of troubleshooting. 

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AE
Senior System Administrator at Saudi Electronic University

We implemented a PoC for Nutanix but did not test it in a production environment. I have done a little bit of work with Hyper-V but otherwise, I have only worked on traditional architectures.

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UF
System support engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did previously use internal storage solutions.

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MC
Manager Innovation Cross Developer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We previously used traditional storage solutions such as HPE, Dell Compellent, Hitachi, and others. We did not use a software storage solution before vSAN.

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

We used traditional SAN technology before using vSAN.

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

As a consultant, I use different solutions, such as Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, and Nutanix.

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

We were using traditional SAN technology before moving over to vSAN.

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

In most of our environments, we still have "traditional" storage, some of which is becoming end of life and will be decommissioned. Others are relatively still recent and are being used as a secondary storage together with vSAN. It’s like having the best of both worlds in a way. We have been using and implementing most of the VMware products for several years now; vSAN keeps consolidating our infrastructure under one vendor.

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it_user509292 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Computacenter

We were pretty happy with the release before, the VSA version, but it was discontinued. We have many customers who implement the VSAN ROBO solution. We are part of the roadmap discussion and we're going to know what comes up next, so we're pretty happy with the new release.

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

We've been a VMware partner for quite sometime. When VSAN was announced, we were actually working with the beta. We decided that this is really the track that we want to follow because we believe in the software-defined data center. Everything is becoming software-defined. For us to not do the same thing with storage when we're doing it with networking and with compute, it just really doesn't make sense. The same kind of savings had been brought by server virtualization, the same kind of flexibility, agility, that can also be applied to storage. So, it just seems like the next natural place to go. For us as a VMware-focused partner, it made sense to get on board with VSAN right from the get-go.

Previously before VSAN, we're using a whole host of different technologies because there were a lot of corner cases where we would have to use an enterprise array. Other times we would end up using something that's a little bit smaller. What VSAN has done is, not only bridge some of the gaps that we had in storage before, but it's allowed us to replace a lot of solutions that didn't really meet the needs perfectly. Here we've got a more custom-fit that we can provide our customers and be able to address about 80% of customer's needs.

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MM
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr

We did not work with a similar software preciously. We were working with traditional solutions such as storage, and servers, but not software-defined storage like vSAN.

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DA
Founder at a construction company with 11-50 employees

We didn't use any solution previously. We just had monolithic storage. We just wanted to test this solution out.

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

My organization didn't previously use a different hyper-converged solution. This product is their first in this particular area.

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PS
Solutions Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The decision to switch away from standard array to vSAN was a fairly simple one for us. We had been decreasing the amount of operations that we do inside of our branch sites. For the sites which remain, vSAN is a good fit versus the legacy Dell EMC VNX arrays that we had been deploying. 

We are finding that vSAN is a lot more scalable and adaptable, because we can go in with hybrid arrays for our lower-end storage needs or with all-flash versions of vSAN for places where we need more performance, and it's coming in at a lower cost point than an actual traditional array.

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AW
Systems Engineer at Colorado College

We wanted to give more redundant access to the users' desktops than they previously had. Before, we were on a single SAN which was causing us issues if we had either an issue with the SAN or an issue with our environment when the SAN would go down. By using vSAN, it would allow us to spread our data across multiple data centers on our campus and be more fault tolerant.

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

We didn’t use a virtual SAN solution previously. We just used traditional, and very expensive, SAN storage arrays. We moved to vSAN because our budget wasn’t getting any bigger, but our storage requirements were increasing.

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

We were using EMC and we knew we needed something new. Cost is important to look at, because we're nonprofit, as well as the integration with the other VMware products, and the stability of the product too.

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Markus Kemppinen - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Specialist at Civilpoint Oy

The solutions we previously used were dissimilar to the current one. We had VMware for an extremely long time, at least 15 or 16 years. First, there was VMware servers, followed by us building and setting up VMware custom within a couple of servers.

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AH
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were on old hardware and we needed to move to a new solution.

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

We switched to move towards a software-defined datacentre.

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

In my current project, the customer previously used EMC VMAX arrays. As detailed elsewhere, the CapEx savings were incredible.

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

We replaced our infrastructure and did a proper POC. It’s cheap enough that we can still use the hosts and hook a SAN in, and everyone will get an SSD at their desks, so most of the cost is infrastructure. I loved it when I heard about it – virtualized storage and a distributed RAID. Makes total sense.

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

No previous solution was used.

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DJ
System Administrator for virtual platforms at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No, software solutions from VMware based on VMware platforms no migrations.

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

We are primarily NetApp. The decision to invest in a new solution was a C-level-down recommendation.

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

There was a lot of Hyper-V deployed out in this environment, and things of that nature. Hardware was coming to a service-contract end, so the next step for us was to get rid of a lot of one-on-one virtualization that was happening with the Hyper-V environment and start consolidating and bringing it down into something that was a little bit more manageable.

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MB
CIO at Dataprev

In Brazil, our strategy is that we need to move to the cloud. But there are federal rules and, connected to the government's strategy, there are some questions with many of the solutions. All governments have a problem moving to AWS, to Google, or to Microsoft. Dataprev's strategy, in the employment of the federal government, is to apply the new features while staying within the principles set by the federal government. All governments have a big problem with many data centers, a lot of code, with auditors, etc. I can't go into our strategy in depth here.

The government decided to move to the cloud but there are many problems with regulations, with agencies' sensitive information. VMware provides primary and strategic development features, in working with us in the federal government.

When looking at vendors the most important criterion for us is trust. We need to be able to trust the vendor, the solution, the whole technical development team, because the technical account manager and other teams work with my team inside my data centers.

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

Standard fibre SAN infrastructure. We switched due to fibre switches, fibre cards, and fibre SAN.

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AK
Principal Technical Consultant at Fujitsu Consulting India

In my past experience, I didn’t use policy based storage; I always worked with standard storage.

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

We did not have any comparable solution previously. We did previously use traditional SAN / NAS environments from where the storage areas were provisioned for the VMware clusters.

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

We previously used another solution. We switched because it reduced the TCO.

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

We chose it because of cost considerations. We already had an enterprise agreement with VMware, so vSAN licensing was included.

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DP
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our previous solution was SAN-based. I wanted to bring in something new and not only stay with the market, where it's going with the trends, but also to bring in something that is stable enough for production.

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

We knew we needed a new solution. The other one was too complex and too costly and was never really maintained properly. Too many teams had too many hands in it. With the new ACI solution with the Vx Rack, and SDDC, everything is a lot more easily managed.

The most important criterion when selecting a vendor is reputation.

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

My customer switched (or currently is switching) from NetApp filers to vSAN. The main reason is cost. You need the ESXi host hardware anyway, but you now save the costs of storage maintenance. The costs per vSAN license (and the maintenance) are usually lower than for NetApp in this case. Plus, you gain the benefit of only having one management console which is well known and built-in to the management tools used for the central datacenters.

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

We have used VMware for virtualization and NetApp for storage for about 10 years.

We stayed with VMware and decided to switch to vSAN because they have had a good track record here with stable products and we could save money (and grow more gradually) by running vSAN instead of a traditional storage system.

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it_user610440 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use this solution along with another solution, so there was no hard switch.

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it_user593439 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We used the traditional solution of a pool of hypervisor hosts with a common storage attached (iSCSI class). It did the job until we had scalability problems that were related to storage.

The cost of buying a new iSCSI storage was more expensive than rethinking our current solution. For this reason, we changed to vSAN technology.

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

I have deployed several Nutanix and VSAN systems. I have never had to switch between products. Being a technical consultant, our customers generally have decided on the preferred technology before they engage me to design and implement their solution. I openly discuss my view on each product when asked.

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

We were using a traditional storage array from Dell and we will see more VSAN usage in the future.

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

We also sell other solutions. We aren't exclusively using VMware. We also, for example, sell HP solutions. We also work with UHCI with Nimble and SimpliVity and with Cisco, with Nexus, Huawei, or hyper-convergence solutions like Cisco HyperFlex.

My customers typically choose VMware as it is a known platform. The main deciding factor seems to be knowledge of the product itself.

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TK
CTO at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We were using Compellent. I was okay with it, but it wasn't performing as well as I would've liked and, certainly, the expense and scaling the thing was just too expensive. The other issue was that the natural redundancy you can build with vSAN, you can't really build that with Compellent, unless you have at least two of them. With two you can replicate between them, but, again, they are expensive systems.

When selecting a vendor, what's important to me is a partnership. That sums it up. To me, a vendor has to go in with us for the long haul. We can help the vendor and the vendor can help us. We can help each other out. To me, a partnership is key.

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

No, I didn’t use other solutions previously, because converged solutions are new technologies and I knew VMware Technology's reputation. But, I am developing other competencies, especially with Nutanix Technology.

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MB
Data Center Engineer at Strategic Solutions of Virginia

We made the jump to VSAN primarily due to cost renewals going up year over year on traditional platforms. The software and hardware costs that we see now is just linear, we know what it's going to be.

We actually have been with VMware for quite a while so we made the choice to use VSAN because of that partnership that we have had over the years. We're fully focused in VMware and we love the product. That's why we chose VSAN.

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it_user315327 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user618969 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and System Administrator with 51-200 employees

We did not have a chance to try other virtualization platforms because the first one we tried really gave us a strong enough reason to stay loyal.

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

Traditional storage is scale-up type, which means there are a lot of supplier limitations and it costs too much.

Why not break though this situation? Now, flash is getting cheaper and bigger. With the changes mentioned, I think it will just stimulate SDS.

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DN
Senior Buyer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Nutanix is a product that I am familiar with. We were able to use the Nutanix supported trial version.

In Microsoft's system center, both Nutanix and VMware can be easily maintained.

We will not be using the Nutanx system at this time.

Nutanix's integration with other platforms could be improved.

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

We had no previous solution.

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it_user621819 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect with 501-1,000 employees

I did not previously use a different solution but there are various solutions out there in the hyper-converged market that work very well.

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

Our previous hyper-converged system broke down due to a power failure. A new system was needed. vSAN was the logical choice, as we are a VMware Partner.

The way VMware integrated the vSAN hyper-converged storage functionalities in their vSphere Kernel is really revolutionary.

It allows the environment to scale out on storage resources when the business needs it. You no longer have to buy those expensive traditional SAN setups scaled for the “future requirements” that you had in mind at the time.

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it_user572724 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Architect at Grupo Sothis

We previously used a traditional environment. We switched because the hyperconverged systems is very easy to deploy, it can scale and provides performance.

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FV
System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have experience with Cisco HyperFlex solutions.

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

We had no hyperconverged solution beforehand. We knew that we needed to do some testing with them. It started off as a compatibility (test) and just kept ballooning from there until we went and implemented it.

When choosing a vendor, our most important criteria are reputation and stability. You can't go into something without understanding just how good it is, and if you roll the dice, sometimes you get burned. We're a risk-averse company.

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it_user611973 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not previously use a different solution.

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

We did not previously use a different solution.

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VS
Director at Dnipro-Technocnter

We are trying to support Nutanix, so I have some experience with it.

The suitability of one solution over the other depends on the use case.

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it_user515658 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Support Specialist at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

We did not use a different solution before this one.

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it_user645621 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant EUC and Cloud at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Earlier customer has used Netapp and EMC storages, In that they faced issues on stability and scalablity.

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RB
Information Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

On a scale from one to ten, I would give VMware vSAN a nine.

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it_user609789 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Virtualization at DataLine LLC

Previously we use traditional datastores - NetApp, EMC, IBM. And we continue to use it.

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

I haven’t used a different HCI solution before.

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

Prior to VSAN, we used SAN Storage, and we switched because we needed a more cost-effective solution for our cloud environment, coupled with easy scalability. Currently, SAN Storage has risks and bottlenecks, due to having only two storage processors which are not enough to handle our needs.

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Ravikumar Korada - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Recruiter at Covalense

I have experience with HPE ProLiant Servers, which are installed through manual configurations.

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