VMware vSAN

For us it has saved us money - upgrades are cheaper and easier.

Less worry about downtime

Can run update on the hosts during business. We do not need to worry about maintenance windows.

we have realized savings in the licensing compared to traditional storage (over $500,000 over the last 5 years)

we have realized ROI through efficiencies in our staff of approx $1MM (over the last 5 years)

also, positive impact on the time to value/speed of implementation allowed us to realize business objectives (Over $1MM of ROI)

vSAN provide great flexibility and efficiency.

Low cost management for the services.

It provide high availability of the resources.

Reduce in SQL licenses[.]

Reduce in storage licenses[.]

Reduce in data center costs[.]

VMware vSAN provides a very stable and easy-to-use infrastructure base, making sure the application can be deployed quickly with reliability and extensibility, which are the core of the business

The cost of each processor is too high

If you need deduplication you need all of [your cache] and the cost is higher.

It depends on customer relationship with VMware and how they build solution out of it.

Many customers got benefited from the solutions.

Licensing cost is one aspect which may increase for vSphere 7 onwards due to 32 Core model.

vSAN gave us the possibility to test HCI technology.

It is mostly positive impact because we've done our testing on time.

Good product for inexpensive storage.

Even though the license prices were a huge investment, this has brought us better performance.

VM portability made testing faster.

Lower costs of ownership.

With vSAN, we no longer need a storage admin to run a SAN. And yet we still have all the functionality in vSphere including vMotion.

With vSAN, we no longer need a storage admin to run a SAN. And yet we still have all the functionality in vSphere including vMotion.

Positive impact: lots of time saved.

Positive impact: ease of use is through the roof.

Negative: We use it so much we need more space already!

The ROI for VMware vSAN seems very positive. We have yet to need to upgrade since we put it in a few years ago, but without the heavy cost of dedicated storage, we have already seen reduced hardware maintenance costs and reduced management time spent.

With the cost of dedicated storage and its separate maintenance costs, all this is rolled back into the hosts. The hosts cost more with drives in them, but not near as much as the separate dedicated storage did.

Before VMware vSAN, you had hosts and storage devices aging out, running out of capacity, or underperforming. With vSAN you only have to worry about the hosts.

We spent less on a per gigabyte basis for our vSAN solution than we would have for competing products.

We received more pure storage for our vSAN solution than we would have for the same budget with a competing product.

Speed on testing is improved.

Speed on getting testing initialized has greatly improved because we can migrate the VMs easily now.

vSAN offsets our costs of maintaining a separate discrete storage array at each site.

ROBO pricing lowers our TCO within the branch locations.

SSD drive prices have decreased significantly, allowing a lot broader all-flash deployments for our uses.