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HPE StoreVirtual vs VMware vSAN comparison

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
8.4
Pure Storage FlashBlade delivers cost savings, efficiency gains, and increased VM density, with returns seen within four years.
Sentiment score
5.9
Users report significant ROI from HPE StoreVirtual, with benefits including reliability, cost-effectiveness, and challenges like licensing issues.
Sentiment score
4.8
Organizations found VMware vSAN impacts varied, with cost savings and productivity gains, but faced challenges in precise financial measurement.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.2
Pure Storage FlashBlade's customer service is praised for expertise but sometimes experiences slower responses due to growth challenges.
Sentiment score
7.0
HPE StoreVirtual offers excellent customer service, despite occasional delays, with knowledgeable staff and effective issue resolution globally.
Sentiment score
5.6
VMware vSAN support is generally praised for responsiveness and competence, though users note variability in response times and delays.
I would rate them an eight out of ten.
I am not satisfied with VMware support, particularly with the reaction times, SLAs, and those kinds of issues.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.9
Pure Storage FlashBlade is praised for its scalability and ease of expansion, satisfying various industries like banking and media.
Sentiment score
7.2
HPE StoreVirtual is praised for scalability, flexibility, and effective performance but has mixed reviews on cost per rack.
Sentiment score
6.5
VMware vSAN offers flexible scaling, enabling efficient infrastructure expansion, appreciated for seamless storage and performance boost across workloads.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.8
Pure Storage FlashBlade is highly rated for stability, reliability, and performance, with minimal downtime and swift recovery.
Sentiment score
7.4
HPE StoreVirtual is praised for its stability, exceptional reliability, and effective resolution of minor technical and hardware issues.
Sentiment score
5.7
VMware vSAN is generally stable with high performance, though hardware compatibility and minor glitches are occasionally reported.
In case there is any issue with any blade, the data is moved to another.
 

Room For Improvement

Users want better cloud integration, support, pricing, efficiency, and improvements in analytics, configuration, and backup for FlashBlade.
HPE StoreVirtual requires enhancements in latency, stability, interface, scalability, and support for newer VMware, with simpler management and maintenance.
VMware vSAN requires improvements in management, compatibility, cost, monitoring, and stability, with challenges in user interface and integration.
Its configuration should be easier.
Maybe incorporation of automation to build clusters in a more automated way would be beneficial.
 

Setup Cost

Pure Storage FlashBlade is costlier but valued for performance, ease, and reliability, justifying its comprehensive licensing with included software.
HPE StoreVirtual offers initial high setup costs but becomes cost-effective with scale, featuring simple licensing and free VSA for up to 1TB.
VMware vSAN offers enterprise storage features with potential cost savings but can be costly for smaller businesses.
 

Valuable Features

Pure Storage FlashBlade offers high performance, scalability, and ease of use with excellent data protection and seamless integration for large storage needs.
HPE StoreVirtual provides high availability, easy scalability, and efficient management, ideal for resilient, cost-effective storage across multiple hypervisors.
VMware vSAN offers high performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, easy deployment, and integration, providing flexible storage for evolving business needs.
We can plug in many blades, and we can have data up to one terabyte.
A one-stack solution from one vendor is the main benefit here.
 

Categories and Ranking

Pure Storage FlashBlade
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Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (17th), File and Object Storage (6th)
HPE StoreVirtual
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (20th)
VMware vSAN
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
230
Ranking in other categories
HCI (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Software Defined Storage (SDS)
HCI
 

Featured Reviews

Eric Black - PeerSpot reviewer
The ability to leverage multi-tenancy along with immutability is a huge benefit for us
The only thing I feel FlashBlade is missing is the SOS API. If it had SOS API, that would put it well over the top. Veeam Backup specifically has started to streamline their API, and they are doing that with SOS API. They have optimized it. Any of the S3 devices out there that support this SOS API can have far more API calls at once. On our side, that translates to better restoration. With SOS API, it can leverage far more restorations at a single given time or read from the device in simple terms. That results in maximizing the output and throughput from the device itself.
Vebjorn Nergaard - PeerSpot reviewer
Reliable with helpful support and good replication
The setup is okay, however, it comes with a moderate amount of difficulty. If you are new to the product, it is difficult. You do get used to the process over time and it gets easier. A company just needs one person to maintain the solution as it just runs. You don't need any support staff. It's very, very hands-off except when you do updates. The product is living its own life.
Yves Sandfort - PeerSpot reviewer
Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources
Stability can be improved. Adding all these new features is nice, but we are now at the level where most of the features you need in production are there. The stability is not from a day-to-day operations perspective, but more from a supportability perspective, because currently some of the support scenarios require you to completely evacuate hosts or the complete cluster. That sometimes can be a stretch. This would clearly be an improvement if the support teams were given additional tools to make that easier. Upgradability could be a bit easier sometimes. We are now where vSAN can be updated without ESXi, but there is still enough dependency. So that would be good if that actually would be uncoupled even more. Dashboards are there, and we use vROps as well. So, we have all the beauty of capacity planning and everything over there. That's not really something where we need a lot of other things.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
37%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Government
9%
Educational Organization
53%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashBlade?
The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power out...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashBlade?
The pricing for FlashBlade is between cheap and moderate. FlashBlade is worth the money due to the experience and per...
What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashBlade?
Its configuration should be easier. There should be easier language for the configuration.
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Also Known As

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HPE StoreVirtual, HPE VSA
vSAN
 

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Sample Customers

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