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.

It is very easy to set up and very easy to use. It is very useful.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It uncoupled the idea of proprietary technology and component capabilities. It is basically a proprietary technology for a cost-effective infrastructure. 

The feature I've been most pleased with is the import management functionality. 

The most valuable feature is stability.

This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created.

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.

Being able to deploy multiple applications with virtual servers is the most valuable for us. 

The VCG notification feature is key for me. 

The most valuable features are Erasure Coding, Deduplication, and Compression, and the advancement in stretching regarding replication.

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. 

Stretched Cluster is one of the big features that we use across multiple data centers.

It has a single pane of glass for management and operational control, which is the most valuable feature. The integrated storage is also valuable.

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.

We have found many of the features to be valuable.

The solutions best feature is that it is easy to use. The integration between different operating system is easy. It is reliable. 

The most valuable features are productivity and data storage.

It's completely hyper-converged, so it's very convenient. We get everything in a bundle.

It is easy to work with, easy to handle, and easy to manage.

The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability.

Manage both of virtual machines (VM), containers and cloud ready solution

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. 

The most valuable features are the reduced rack space, reduced power consumption, reduced cooling, and reduced support costs.