Item: VMware vSAN
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VMware vSAN

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company's infrastructure is fully built on top of VMware's EXSi/VSphere/NSX/VxRail stack, so VMware vSAN is part of this family. We had the HCI, and VMware vSAN is used to manage the storage pool, provisioned from SSD and HDD. Depending on the different use cases and application requirements, those storages are allocated to the VM instances. The integrated vCenter is being used to monitor and manage VMware vSAN together with other resources, and due to the recent adoption of TKG, new features of VMware vSAN 7 will be also embraced.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Combined with vSphere, VMware vSAN enables us to manage computing and storage with a single, integrated platform
It simplifies storage management and speeds up VM delivery speed from the infrastructure team to the application team
The professional support from VMware is great
Allows the hybrid mode of mixing the SSD and HDD, which is more attractive for low-cost projects
A new feature of VMware vSAN 7 supports file-based persistent volumes for Kubernetes on VMware vSAN data stores. So for TKG , the application team can dynamically create file shares for their applications and have multiple pods share data more easily

Most Important Features

Auto scaling, easy scaling, scaling up, and scaling out
Optimized input-output data path in the vSphere hypervisor for exceptional performance
Features like VMware vSphere Replication provide asynchronous virtual machine replication with recovery point objectives configured per each virtual machine

Return on Investment

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

Key Insights

Do you think VMware vSAN delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with VMware vSAN's feature set?

Yes

Did VMware vSAN live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of VMware vSAN go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy VMware vSAN again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Neo4j

Likelihood to Recommend

VMware vSAN is suitable for company that wants to provide better storage as service, and of course it is better when used together with all other VMware components to maximize benefits. Companies with legacy server nodes with storage attached can also consider using VMware vSAN to contribute those servers' storage to the virtual machine, instead of buying the new SAN just for capacity expansion.

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