vSAN use in an R&D lab
July 05, 2019
vSAN use in an R&D lab
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware vSAN
Departmentally for R&D to investigate how our product line interacts within its framework. It solves multiple business problems including data integrity, business continuity for the department, and hyper-convergence for speeds and workloads. We have found that the platform will significantly accelerate workloads with limited issues. We are always seeking solutions that provide optimal data throughput with non-hardware redundancy.
- Data integrity in an all-flash environment is very strong. Once it is up and running in a "raid 6" type format it will stay running without issues for a long time
- Data flow. VMs sometimes require a lot of tweaking and tuning to get optimal performance but this is to be expected. We found the performance to be exceptional.
- Portability of the VMs was also an unexpected surprise. The ability to migrate the VMs across datacenters was appreciated.
- It would be nice to have fabric-based storage acceptance to disaggregate storage and expand beyond the node concept. The assumption that increased storage needs require increased compute or ram is simply not true.
- The licensing costs are high but you do get what you pay for.
- Speed on testing is improved.
- Speed on getting testing initialized has greatly improved because we can migrate the VMs easily now.
We only tested vSAN.