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VMware vSAN!!
January 25, 2023

VMware vSAN!!

Vandana Yadav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with VMware vSAN

We recommend VMware vSAN to our customers , especially where the customer does not want to use any external storage. VMware vSAN combines all the storage of servers installed in a cluster and creates a unified storage pool for the applications running on those servers. This is basically a hyper-converged solution, which can be used by many customers efficiently to run their applications.
  • Combines hard drives of servers and creates a common storage pool
  • Storage management
  • Supports Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
  • Management of disks is little tricky.
  • Compatibility issues with traiditional servers
  • Not a great use case for critical applications.
  • Virtualization of storage
  • Performance enhancement
  • Provides Hyper converged Infrastructure
  • Positive because of its performance
  • Faster performance of my applications
  • Positive as it cuts my additional storage cost for small applications
Upgrades and maintenance are little difficult in other solutions available. Also, VMware vSAN offers a vast range of features optimizing the CPU and memory to great extent resulting in faster performance . Performance is enhanced with VMware vSAN and support of vSAN is also very easy for all the users .

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy VMware vSAN again?

Yes

It is best suited for applications where there is not much data processing, means if customer does not want to go with external box of SAN or NAS, with the help of VMware VSAN the customer can pool all the hard disks of servers virtually which is shared by different VMs running on ESXI hypervisor. There should be 3 servers mainly to run this software.
Scenarios where there is large amount of data that is being processed by the customer applications, additional storage box is recommended,