VMware vSAN Stability
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reviewer1381863
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Initially, there were a lot of problems because it was a new product from VMware. There were a lot of hiccups, but now, it is a very stable product.
View full review »It's stable.
View full review »I would rate the stability a six out of ten. It is less stable than Nutanix.
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VMware vSAN
March 2024
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It's very stable, though slightly less than ideal due to the challenge of debugging.
View full review »We did see some backup failures due to .vmx lock files in the vSAN datastore.
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Sukanya Satapanachai
Infrastructure Professional Service Team Lead at G-Able
I would rate the stability a six out of ten because sometimes everything looks all green, and healthy.
But the next day, vSAN shows something red, and the host just disconnects from the cluster with a recent issue. We have to open a ticket to resolve it.
So the stability can be inconsistent.
View full review »It is a stable platform. I rate the stability as ten out of ten.
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Leif Darell Momo
Senior Solutions Consultant Lead at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
The product is stable.
There is no problem with the stability since it has been in the market for 20 years.
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Zandile Mushi
Network Administrator at Mzansi Security and Fire
It is a stable solution. I have never encountered any stability issues with the product unless there is an update. I update the product whenever needed so that I don't have to face any issues.
The stability of VMware vSAN is excellent. We have been running for one year, and there's there has not been any downtime. The speed is not the fastest, but it's sufficient.
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reviewer1120872
Head of the Cloud Factory Architecture & President at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
My impression of the stability is that it's a very good solution for our usage.
View full review »I like its stability. I think we probably need to get an additional node in there. Right now, we're running some 4-node VSANs. We probably should be at a 5 with a 2-RAID parity on that. Four is okay; it's stable, it's efficient. I haven't really run into any issues with it.
Some of the earlier versions were a little rough; we saw some weird, crooked behavior. Beyond that, it's been solid, and it just works. No issues yet.
Our early deployments of VSAN ran into a few issues with performance. Some of the nodes we installed initially had very high IO utilization when nothing was occurring on the disks; likely related to some replication tasks. Additionally, our fault tolerance was low using just a four-node VSAN (giving an N+1 configuration). We really should be a N+2 (which apparently takes six nodes, not five…).
Performance since then has been outstanding.
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Imran Sideek
Business Development Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The product is stable.
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Laurent NAHMIAS
Director at SOFTLOGIC
VMware vSAN is a stable solution.
We have made many tests, we have also shut down the servers and made an extraction of the disk and everything, and vSAN was very good.
View full review »VMware vSAN is a pretty stable solution. We haven't seen any issues with the solution's stability in five to seven years. The customers would face issues if they ignore some key points.
I rate VMware vSAN a nine out of ten for stability.
We had some issues in very early releases, and it has become much better over time. Stability with vSAN has come it's way. When we look at 5.5, then 6.0, 6.2, 6.6, 6.7 it has moved ahead every time. Clearly, 5.5 and 6.0 have their issues, but the product is constantly improving.
We need to keep in mind that we are talking about relatively new technology. Whenever you are adopting something early on, you need to accept not everything runs as smoothly as you would expect it to. However, we can see the progress with vSAN, and that's one of the reasons why we built our platforms on it.
View full review »It's relatively stable now although we had some issues in the past.
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Daniel Lutz
Consultant at Trigonova GmbH
Its stability is good.
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reviewer1215390
Director - IT Strategy Lead at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
It has been a pretty stable system so far.
View full review »The stability is quite good.
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AhmedHafied
EUC Consultant
vSAN isn't very stable.
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Gabriele-Pizzigati
Senior Software and Systems Engineer at SAMU.IT
The stability is standard. Many people use VMware as a virtualization solution.
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Peter Betyounan
CTO & Co-Founder at Servers Australia
This is the best product that we've ever used.
View full review »I would say vSAN is stable.
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Aaron Reiss
Infrastructure Engineer at Boys Town
So far we haven't had any issues at all. It has worked very well.
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Director6588
Director Of IT Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It has been stable.
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Supervis55e8
Supervisor at RSM US LLP
The stability is awesome. We love it.
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Christian Paatsch
Head of IT-Department at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The stability is excellent. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable
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Michael Ogunlade
Head of enterprise systems at Fidelity Bank Plc
I find it to be a stable solution.
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Md.Shahadat Hossain Shipon
Sr. Manager-Data Center and Virtualization at Omgea Exim Ltd
It's a very stable product.
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Jose Fuentes
Infrastructure Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees
To me, it is very stable. I never have problems. I have used VMware for 15 years and I never had any problems with stability. Like any normal system, you may sometimes have problems with one little platform, or with a host that is not working. But, there are no major issues.
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Ed Hammond
VP of Systems Operations at COGO LABS, INC
Stability is okay. We do see weird things crop up every now and again. It will say that a drive gets kicked off even though it's fine, and we have to re-add it. So a few gremlins here and there, but for the most part, it's pretty good.
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reviewer1266285
Infrastructure Security with 201-500 employees
The stability of the product is very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable and the performance is good.
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reviewer1249170
Senior Expert Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The stability is satisfactory, it has been working well.
View full review »The stability and performance of the solution are good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's been very good so far, although we haven't used it for very long.
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Yousaf Khan
Head of network and web at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees
We had some issues about a year ago with stability. We took the problem to support and they were able to resolve whatever the issue was. It's been stable since then, and we haven't had issues with bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze.
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reviewer1502748
Senior Manager IT Services at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has good stability. It is better than the non-hyper-converged one that we had previously.
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Barbara MacKenzie
Head, IS Operations & Infrastructure at IM Medical Centre for Health
Stability on the vSAN has been 100 percent. As part of the implementation process, the VMware customer success team for vSAN assisted us. We actually retrofitted hard disk into our own existing hosts and they went through a process of review and remediation to get all the "green ticks". We went through that process in advance of putting it into production for our data center, which we did this year. So, there have been absolutely no problems from that perspective.
View full review »The stability of VSAN so far has been excellent. We're just beginning to enter production. We're beginning to migrate our data off a traditional SANS which are a collection of EMC, IBM, NetApp, whole range of them onto the VSAN platform and so far we haven't had any problems.
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Veysel-Ozdemir
Managing Director at Ictnet Limited
I have found the stability to be great. There aren't bugs. It doesn't glitch. There aren't issues around it crashing or freezing. It's reliable.
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Maan Othman
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
It is stable, and its performance is very good.
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Ifrastrudd3b
Infrastructure Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability of vSAN has been pretty much flawless for us.
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Chris Gould
Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has been pretty stable for us.
View full review »It's very stable. Once you get it built and you take the time to build the system correctly, do your research, once it's in place it's been very stable and it performs as it says.
View full review »VMware vSAN is a stable solution.
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Kenny Morales
Senior Server Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability has been great with vSAN. We have not yet seen downtime.
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Deron Roberts
Senior Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is very good. We have some HCI solutions like this in our environment and this one is on par with those solutions.
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reviewer1231965
IT Project Manager at a museum or institution with 11-50 employees
Its stability is good. Its performance is good. We haven't had any breakdown in the last two years. We are very satisfied with the solution.
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Syed Nouman Ali Rizvi
System Admin at Institute of Space Technology (IST)
VMware vSAN is stable.
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Vijayakumar Arumuga Nadar
R&D Architect at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is stable for me. We are getting good amount of IOS (the expected amount). The configuration of vSAN is pretty simple. It's just on a cluster level which is pretty simple.
The stability is very much required. vSAN provides default HA configurations, where if any host goes down, the VM moves around within the host. Even though the disks are local, the VMs moves around with the vSAN disk and vSAN provides a high availability on its own.
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Paul Letta
Systems Administrator at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Stability is working very well. vSAN is very dependent upon your network. If your network is stable, vSAN will most likely be stable.
Our network is very stable. Therefore, we have not had issues.
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Joseph Lepek
IT Manager at VelocityEHS
Now it's great. The stability of vSAN is getting better every day. We had some hiccups in the past, but we worked through it with some great techs. They were there with us the whole way, and we got through most of our hiccups.
There are definitely some things you need to know about vSAN going into it, like don't over-commit your storage, that we didn't know. We hit every problem you can probably hit with vSAN, but we're good. We're still up and running.
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Michael Cayouette
Team Lead System Integration at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We find the stability very good. It really reduces our overall operations.
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Greg Kincade
Product Manager at Micron Technology, Inc.
The stability is fine, it's as stable as the vSphere, and vSphere has been around for a long time.
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Russ Timberman
Senior Network Engineer at Reliance Standard Life Insurance
So far, the stability has been very good.
View full review »It's not quite there yet. We've had a few outages that were addressed. It's not 100% there yet -- give it another six months.
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reviewer1172055
Senior System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
VMware vSAN is a stable solution.
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Pengineers0997
Principal Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Stability is and was always good with VMware. I've never had any issues.
View full review »We have had no issues with stability.
View full review »We didn’t have any stability problems. Once configured, vSAN operated without issue.
View full review »There’s never been an issue with Virtual SAN over the last year that we've been testing it. Support is really efficient because it's same global support with VMware that we've been with and we are familiar with. As far as I know, some of the highest rated support from any vendors that we use. We did all sorts of tests initially before we deployed in the production environment. We simulated disk failures, host failures, network failures, and Virtual SAN didn't have any issues dealing with all of these failures, so we're confident in that deploy more applications, more VMs in this system.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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reviewer1784406
Works at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
It is a stable product, especially now that we have it fully implemented. However, if any two or three of the nodes go away, vSAN goes down. I think we've had a few VMs where the data has been lost for this reason. I guess that the way it works would be similar to other technologies, but that's what we have observed.
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reviewer1768719
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think vSAN's stability is good. It's an underlying solution for both on-prem and in the cloud, especially the VMC on AWS stuff too. VMware has been around for a long time, so it's pretty stable.
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reviewer1750083
Senior Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
VMware vSAN is stable. We would not recommend it to so many of our partners if it were not. It is foolproof; it's on multiple workloads.
View full review »The solution is highly stable.
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Darshil Sanghvi
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We have never had any kind of hardware issues or problems. The solution is stable.
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reviewer1075695
AVP at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
We have not had much of a problem so I would say it is very stable.
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Jason Montogomery
Engineer at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
So far, except for a couple glitches in past revisions, the stability has been alright. We had some issues with dedupe and compression in 6.2, where we had to delete all the storage off of it and recreate the storage groups. But besides that, it's been working well.
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Todd Wright
Engineering Specialist at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
The stability has been very good. I don't think we've had any real issues from what we have been setting up so far.
View full review »Starting out there was some stability issues but I don't see them the same way that I did. There were bugs, there’s firmware, the HCL cam, seemed a little fluid but things have stabilized significantly. There haven't been any major outages that were something that I would say wasn't our fault or wasn't due to like a configuration error somewhere in the stack so, and the best part about it actually was, whenever we did have these stability issues and outages VSN never dropped data.
It wasn't until we had gone through like five or six, dirty reboots that we started to have it drop the objects from the metadata tables so we couldn't address the objects and see them but they were technically still there, there was just no owner of them. So if we had gone in, you know, with a higher level engineer that knew how to take ownership of those back we would have been able to get them back but it was a VDI deployment so we didn't really care we just scorched earth and began again, but you know, data resiliency has been something that VSAN evangelists really talk about and it's something that they really do. You're not dropping data as long as you stick to the HCL, of course.
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reviewer1701477
Director - DC & Hybrid Cloud Presales Lead for APAC at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable.
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Tun Toe Aung
Head Of Products And Solutions Architect at a government with 201-500 employees
The solution is quite stable in small and medium environments. However, I do not have experience using the solution in enterprises companies.
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reviewer1390431
Head Of Network & Technical Support at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The stability could be better. We're not really happy with the reliability or performance.
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reviewer1496229
Manager at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
We have found the solution to be stable and reliable. We haven't really had to deal with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze either.
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ProductOa5a5
Product Operations at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is good.
We have a couple of problems but we're working through them. In the deployments we have in our Dev environment, it's more about how the hardware is interacting. We have them on Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes and we're just working through some of the driver issues and some random rebooting that we're having to deal with. But we have support contracts. Everything seems to be doing fine.
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ManagerT5097
Manager, Technical Systems at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The stability is there.
View full review »There have been no issues with stability.
I personally consider VSAN to be a very stable product. Obviously you have to have a minimum of four nodes, to say that, the minimum spec is for three nodes, but if you have 4 nodes or higher for VSAN, it is a very stable product.
View full review »It's very stable, but we ran into some early issues with drivers and firmware, but this is resolved now. You must be careful to be coverd in that respect, otherwise you will have issues.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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reviewer1714488
Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The stability of the solution is very good. From customer feedback, VMware is much more stable compared to Hyper-V.
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reviewer1126143
IT Infrastructure Manager at a retailer with 11-50 employees
This solution is very, very stable.
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AmrEldawody
Senior System Administrator at Saudi Electronic University
This is a stable product. We have been testing it extensively.
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reviewer929742
System support engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is good. The solution doesn't have bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable and the performance has been great.
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Marcello Collao
Manager Innovation Cross Developer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
When we began with this product, we made some mistakes. But through collaboration with the vendor we were able to find a solution to the problems and, today, it is a stable solution.
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SeniorSy617e
Senior Systems Administration at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
vSAN has come a long way. It's a highly stable product and something that everyone should look at. Even in a large data center, now, vSAN makes sense.
View full review »We did have some stability issues. Initially, we faced issues due to lack of visibility of the HCL from VMware and the hardware vendor (Dell). But once the issue was sorted out, the product gave us rock-solid stability.
View full review »Some customers report that resync doesn’t work very well.
View full review »We did encounter stability issues. Initially, we faced issues due to the lack of visibility of the HCL from VMWare and the hardware vendor (Dell). But once the issue was sorted out, the product gave rock-solid stability.
View full review »The only issue that I recall having was with a controller driver that did not pass the HCL check; this happened following an update to 6.2, but a patch was released soon after. We did not experience any service interruption or downtime.
View full review »We had some purple screens of death at the beginning, but that was only due to hardware problems. Today, it's very stable and nearly rock solid; so, very nice.
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Igor Zheltukhin
Lead Engineer at IBS Platformix
The architecture of VMware vSAN is a major issue with stability.
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reviewer1710336
Pre sales Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We had some complaints about the recent firmware update.
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Conrad Cruz
Account Executiveager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
VMware vSAN is stable, although there's is some room for improvement.
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DHACHANNAACHAISIN
Managing Director at WISE VARY
The stability has been very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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Mohab Samy
VMware Technician Manager at VAS
The solution is quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. the performance has been good.
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MinaMagdy
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr
VMware vSAN is very stable.
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reviewer1320009
Founder at a construction company with 11-50 employees
It is fairly good.
View full review »We haven't had any issues I can recall in terms of stability. It's pretty reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches.
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Philip Sellers
Solutions Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability with vSAN has been really good. We've had very few issues. When we have had maintenance issues, the vSAN has come back and healed them automatically for us. I don't think that we've had to actually engage support a single time in the six months that we've been running vSAN in our corporate office.
View full review »In terms of stability, vSAN is very resilient, self-adapting, and self-healing. In the two years that I’ve worked with vSAN, I haven’t experienced any vSAN stability issues.
View full review »So far so good.
View full review »It's stable, but it's really picky on the hardware. We knew that going in, but the scale was a surprise, not truly as agnostic as we thought it would be. They have a list, and if you deviate a bit, then it won’t support the environment. We had an issue where we deviated slightly, so we probably will have to follow their hardware compatibility list.
View full review »The solution is quite stable. We have encountered some minor issues but, overall, are quite satisfied.
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MinaMagdy
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Misr
This is a very reliable product.
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Andrew Harrison
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Currently, it's very stable. Previous versions, which are still active and out there online: upgrade to the new version.
View full review »We had no stability issues.
View full review »I have observed no stability issues when the product is deployed as instructed. It can and will have stability issues if you do not follow the hardware compatibility list (HCL) or the vSAN Deployment and Sizing Guide.
View full review »I don’t know, but my gut feeling is that it distributes across the hosts, which should be very stable, and it’s all done at the hypervisor level. I don’t think we’ll have any issues.
View full review »I was not sure about its stability because we have a big SAN shop and I got the impression that it’s good for small offices and not the larger ones.
View full review »It's got good stability - 10/10.
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Maan Othman
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
It has good stability.
View full review »It is quite stable.
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Maurizio Del Bianco
IT Manager at PAFOM
The solution is totally stable.
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systemen519357
System Administrator for virtual platforms at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is more stable now than it was before. It's not like it was in the first year.
Now it is stable, and we trust it more.
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SysAdmin827e
Sys Admin II at a retailer
Because of the vendor, we are very neutral on the stability at this moment. The main issue is drivers. Every time we move to a new vSAN version, we're having problems finding the correct drivers for the vendor.
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reviewer924234
Principal Enterprise Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
No issues so far. It's been pretty stable.
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Jonathan Bartelson
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The first impressions of its stability were really good. After using it a little bit more and going through some issues with it, it still shows that it's a very robust tool. From that point of view, I'm going to keep on using it.
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Matheus Belin
CIO at Dataprev
I'm really impressed with the stability of vSAN.
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Aashish
Principal Technical Consultant at Fujitsu Consulting India
Yes, in some of cases after I have built a big vSAN cluster of 64 nodes, all hosts start showing different network partition groups. In that case, without correction, you can’t go further on next level.
View full review »Stability has not been an issue for us. We have not run into any serious software faults. VMware ESXi is a mature product with very few problems and today, vSAN is also getting there.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues.
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Adam Seifert
VDI Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's stable. We haven't had any major issues.
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CTOc0bc
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Right now, the stability is pretty good. It's getting a lot better.
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StdcSupe3d9e
Supervisor at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We haven't had any issues with the stability.
View full review »We have not had stability issues. Even losing the witness appliances is no big deal. vSAN 6.2, as well as vSAN 6.5, seems to be a pretty stable and reliable platform.
View full review »We haven't had stability issues that have affected our running servers. However, that is partly because we pay attention to new releases and what they contain, and we don't update just because a new version is available.
Some updates that we chose not to install had bugs that could have caused instability. Also, because we run such a wide range of products from VMware, one has to look at the support matrix before updating/upgrading software, as it may take some time before all products support each other.
We have had a few alarms and alerts in the system, but they have been resolved without any downtime.
View full review »I did not encounter any issues with stability.
View full review »During normal activity, the vSAN’s behavior is excellent. Performance and stability are awesome.
We have only encountered some issues related to the host update process because they increase the data movement between cluster hosts and it ends up collapsing the network.
View full review »I did not encounter stability issues because I used certified hardware and installed the required firmware/drivers.
However, I have the following issues with stability:
- Not all ESX hosts contribute to statistical collection because we use third-party SSL certificates. We opened a case with support.
- Under the "Datastore” and “Datastore Clusters" views, I cannot move the "Datastore" into a more appropriate folder. It has to be located in the root directory of the view.
It's very stable – we have had no failures.
View full review »I hear a lot of issues of stability whenever you go to maintenance, but people who are having spectacular experiences are not speaking the loudest so it can be hard to tell.
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reviewer1269042
Account Executive at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
This product is stable and comfortable to use.
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reviewer917832
Senior Director at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
I haven't had any issues with the stability of VMware vSAN.
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reviewer1351098
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
In terms of vSAN functionality for stability, I haven't had any client complaints. It seems to work as it is supposed to. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze at all. Our customers are happy.
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reviewer1325607
Trainer in information and communication technologies at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
It's pretty stable most of the time, but you need to make sure your hardware is supported and is compatible.
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CTO300f
CTO at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I was a little bit worried about the stability initially, because I had an experience about three years ago and I wasn't very happy. But so far, it looks pretty good. I'm actually very surprised that its stability has been improved significantly. So far, so good.
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Solution8d8a
Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I find it to be incredibly stable.
View full review »No, for the moment, we have not had any unpleasantness related to stability from the time the technical prerequisites are met (hardware in the VMware Compatibility Guide, par example), as well as best practice to design.
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Matt Baltz
Data Center Engineer at Strategic Solutions of Virginia
The stability exceeds what we're currently on from a standard SAN platform.
View full review »The stability is very good.
Having now deployed it, it's actually difficult to have any downtime or to even lose data.
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reviewer1738062
Technical manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
VMware vSAN is a stable software.
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reviewer1164519
Director Of Services Nicaragua at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This solution is super stable.
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reviewer952848
System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is stable.
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reviewer965808
Solution Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The solution has been stable.
View full review »We have not had any stability issues so far.
View full review »Stability is great; however, you have to notify your counterparts if the system breaks down. :-D
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reviewer935562
Senior Buyer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
VMware vSAN is a stable solution.
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Sandeep Solanki
Assistant General Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a stable solution. So far we have not had any issues.
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SysAdmine7f1
System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's pretty stable now. We had some challenges when we deployed them. There were software bugs.
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Cj Tharp
Senior Systems Engineer at SMITHFIELD FARMLAND CORP
There have been a few issues, but VWware support has been tremendous in resolving them, so it's been good.
View full review »ME
Virtualibfed
Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Overall, it's stable. When it's designed properly for the proper workloads, it's a very stable product. We had some challenges, initially, with getting the workloads aligned to the proper storage policies and configurations, but since we worked through that it has been very stable.
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Damon Howell
Systems Engineer/Partner at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The latest version is very stable. It had a couple of hiccups in the earlier versions. The deployment and integration were simple, but we did have some bugs that we hit on, which have since been fixed.
View full review »We have not had stability issues.
View full review »Anytime I have encountered issues with stability, it usually was the result of a poor design or poor implementation. If you are looking to deploy VMware vSAN properly aligned to your business needs, you should consider a vSAN assessment before anything else. Properly sizing and spec’ing the solution will ensure stability.
View full review »Keep a close eye on the vSAN HCL. As vSAN is continuously in development, the HCL changes as well and so the HCL gets updates.
When you are planning to upgrade the vSAN version, all other components (ESX version, server firmware, server BIOS) need to be checked to see if they are all on that version’s HCL.
View full review »I did not encounter any stability issues, as long as it complies with the compatibility matrix.
View full review »NP
reviewer775962
General Manager Sales at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution is very stable. We have been using VMware for almost more than 10 years and there have been no issues regarding VMware products. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
View full review »Some difficulty finding compatible hardware, but if you follow the HCL provided by VMware. and make sure you're buying the correct nodes, storage devices, and SSD’s that are all supported, then it’s a stable product. Even if you have problems, it's still only one phonecall.
View full review »We haven’t had an issue and we've been using it for about six months now.
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reviewer1227132
System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
So far the stability has been good. We have not had any problems with the stability of VMware vSAN.
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reviewer1109874
Solutions Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I have found the solution to be stable.
View full review »vSAN has been very stable for us. Once we get it up and settled in and the workflows going, usually we don't have to intervene at all. Things just keep working. Stability is important for us with vSAN because it becomes the rock that we depend on. When we need an application to stay up and maintain that ability to bounce between hosts, to work in a true hyperconverged manner, it's the only choice for us.
View full review »We have not encountered any stability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues yet.
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Sebastian Antunez
System Engineer at GoVirtual
The solution is stable.
View full review »VS
Vladyslav Slobodianyk
Director at Dnipro-Technocnter
vSAN is a stable solution.
View full review »There were no issues with stability.
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Rizki Ardiansyah
IT Coordinator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is stable.
We have encountered stability issues. We had run many tests with vSAN before production. To avoid any issues with vSAN stability, one needs HCL hardware and compatible BIOS drivers for each of the components. The crucial part is that you need HBA without RAID and with disk pass-through, which is important. Finally, you need strong network expertise and a solid network.
View full review »Awesome stability.
View full review »I love VMware – it’s allowed us to virtualize our server infrastructure, but I haven’t tested the stability of VSAN extensively yet.
View full review »RA
reviewer1682655
Head of Professional Solutions at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
For our purposes, vSAN's stability is okay.
View full review »AA
Ashraf Ali
Senior Consultant at global brands
It is a very stable and strong product that is easily deliverable to our users.
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ServerAd2edf
Server Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's pretty much stable for us now, apart from some of the issues which can be tackled. But 80 percent of the time it's stable. The issues are probably on our end, network issues. That's what we have figure out.
View full review »I did not encounter any stability issues.
View full review »The stability of VMware vSAN 6.0 is good. You sometimes have to resynchronize the data over the cluster (which is a single button task).
View full review »There have been no stability issues.
View full review »The stability is dependent on how we scale and stabilize I/O across the host(s). We have encountered issues, but have worked through them.
View full review »NO
reviewer1295955
Solutions Coordinator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This is a stable product.
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reviewer1073628
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is a stable solution.
View full review »PT
ITArchit9734
IT Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
On a scale of one to ten I would give the stability a six.
View full review »Assuming we get policies set up where they need to be, it's a stable technology. It's distributed architecture is slick, and will hold up.
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reviewer1747830
Professional Member at a tech company with 1-10 employees
VMware vSAN is stable.
View full review »Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
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