We performed a comparison between Pure Storage FlashArray and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The solution is scalable."
"We're able to get higher-density workloads on the same infrastructure, and we have a smaller physical footprint. The performance is excellent – during our test the bottlenecks are never on the X array, it just keeps picking up the pace to match what you need. The real-time visibility is a differentiator in my opinion."
"The high availability of the product is the most valuable feature."
"The latency is good."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"It's helped us because we've changed fundamentally what we talk about. We don't talk about storage and different tiers of storage anymore nor do we talk about servers. We talk now about applications and how applications impact the business and end users."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The solution is very reliable."
"The product's initial setup phase was very straightforward."
"High availability is a valuable aspect of this solution."
"We don't have to order a storage system, we can just use whatever we have on hand and roll it into our virtualization system."
"It easily integrates with all types of storage."
"The valuable features of vSAN are that you can get it up and running quickly, you get redundancy built-in, and it's pretty much the perfect solution for a cluster."
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"Flexibility, growth, and expansion are probably the more important features for us. As our environment grows, the more users come on, the more VDI workstations that we need, we can easily expand either horizontally or vertically with the environment"
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"They could add more support for file storage and different types of storage."
"We have run into a couple of instances recently where we are running out of space. So we have had to buy some more packs for it and they have deployed fine and it has increased smoothly."
"The tool's pricing is higher than competitors."
"The tool's portfolio is minimal. It is expensive."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with enterprise backup systems."
"We would like to see more visibility into garbage collection and CPU performance in the GUI."
"We would like to see VNC integration or be able to use Pure Storage with VNC."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"Based on my testing, I would like to expand deduplication to include hybrid deployments and not just for all-flash deployments."
"The only negative point relates to the licensing. If you want multiple, different servers, it costs money, but you have all the capacity for vSAN. You do not reach the data, but the processor arrays and the current architecture."
"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
"We plan to switch products since the hardware nowadays is a little bit outdated and we need to scale up a bit."
"Customers who are using Essentials Plus or even Essentials have to pay for technical support. However, they should not have to pay for support."
"It could be more robust. The latency is also an issue for us, and the reliability. I would like it to be faster and a little more flexible."
"Enterprise customers get discounts on the solution's licensing pricing, but it is too expensive for SMB customers."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage with 174 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Effective provisioning, helpful support, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and Dell Unity XT, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
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