VMware vSAN Valuable Features
vSAN gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources. We have an overall larger host infrastructure, and we split that up for specific customer test and use cases. In that specific scenario, we can easily add more hosts or reduce the number of hosts in the environment. This is an advantage when we use vSAN.
We have pretty constant performance results, which is sometimes, on a normal three-tier storage architecture, harder for us to achieve because the customer doesn't want us to verify that the performance of a specific device works. What we typically have to test is that we have a constant scenario across different versions, platforms, and similar things. Here, vSAN gives us the advantage that we can actually work with it.
We can also create test cases, which is maybe not something in other customer scenarios, but for us, it's important. We can even throttle down performance or release more performance. So, we can run more precise test scenarios. If someone says, "We need to run this later on on a relatively small or lower scale edge device," we can actually configure vSAN in a way that it reduces the amount of resources.
When we do to do more scaled load testing, we can run more dense workloads and still have the same results across all specific nodes. Otherwise, we could have that noisy neighbor effect when we work with legacy output.
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reviewer1381863
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It is very easy to set up and very easy to use. It is very useful.
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Vishal Bhatia
Trainer/Consultant at Koenig Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
The policies the solution has been very good. We use them a lot.
The deduplication and compression are excellent.
There are a couple of features which we are using right now that we really like.
It's the kind of solution that is very easy to use, which may be its most valuable aspect for our organization.
The initial setup is straightforward.
The solution overall is very easy to manage and configure.
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Yousaf Khan
Head of network and web at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees
We're largely happy with the solution overall.
The performance has been good in general.
The initial setup is simple.
Technical support is very helpful and very good at resolving issues.
The pricing is decent.
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reviewer1351098
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The solution's unified administration is its most valuable aspect.
Our customers like the HCI functionality, and tiering. My customers enjoy the portion of the solution that can improve the performance of virtual machines
There isn't too much learning involved when picking up the system.
View full review »The most valuable features are secure IOPs and LAN security.
Also, we can provide VMware with IOPs assurity from the vSAN policy, vSAN cluster, which is an expensive solution from the storage.
It has the iSCSI feature.
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reviewer1320009
Founder at a construction company with 11-50 employees
It uncoupled the idea of proprietary technology and component capabilities. It is basically a proprietary technology for a cost-effective infrastructure.
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Pengineers0997
Principal Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The feature I've been most pleased with is the import management functionality.
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systemen519357
System Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature is stability.
View full review »This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created.
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reviewer1325607
Trainer in information and communication technologies at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
This solution has provided us with good performance, something we were looking for as well as integration with deployment tools. One of our main aims is to be able to deploy lab environments in an automated fashion and the product enables us to do that, providing more agility in regards to a virtual machine. We can respond to different needs, but every virtual machine will use the same storage.
It's stable and scalable.
Also, you can virtualize SAN so that you don't have to have a separate storage area network and can have your computer and storage on the same box or computer.
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reviewer1075695
AVP at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Being able to deploy multiple applications with virtual servers is the most valuable for us.
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reviewer1397088
Team Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The VCG notification feature is key for me.
View full review »The most valuable features are Erasure Coding, Deduplication, and Compression, and the advancement in stretching regarding replication.
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reviewer1073628
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I like the reliability of this product because we can lose more than one host, more than one disk, and everything still works okay. It's also good on performance and agility. You can change and add things without any issues.
View full review »Stretched Cluster is one of the big features that we use across multiple data centers.
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reviewer1502748
Senior Manager IT Services at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has a single pane of glass for management and operational control, which is the most valuable feature. The integrated storage is also valuable.
View full review »I like the orchestration feature. The biggest problem with the hyper-convergence solutions is storage. This is because there's often a problem with the big size of the database. The other problem is how to use and balance VM in storage and CPU memory. When you use vSAN, you have a very good orchestration part. It's the main selling point of vSAN compared to other solutions.
View full review »We have found many of the features to be valuable.
View full review »The solutions best feature is that it is easy to use. The integration between different operating system is easy. It is reliable.
View full review »The most valuable features are productivity and data storage.
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reviewer1420677
Systems Operations Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
It's completely hyper-converged, so it's very convenient. We get everything in a bundle.
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reviewer1492707
Systems Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
It is easy to work with, easy to handle, and easy to manage.
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reviewer1434564
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability.
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View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is cheap storage.
This is a fantastic product, it is easy to deploy and to manage, and it suits our requirements.
View full review »The most valuable features are the reduced rack space, reduced power consumption, reduced cooling, and reduced support costs.
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