What advice do you have for others considering VMware vSAN?

When we discuss data efficiency services in VMware vSAN's last version, I think it is extremely good. I have not run extensively with it yet, but we are looking into it because we believe it is beneficial for encryption and moving data. We also consider how to handle cold data and data classification, and it is extremely good in that regard. Regarding supporting hybrid cloud environments, I think VMware vSAN is important. VMware vSAN's concept of a smart cloud involves placing it where you get the best return for your investment. For example, if you have developers using MSDN and free services in Azure, you have various products you might want to consider. VMware vSAN allows for transparency and could be used for DR solutions or testing. Hybrid cloud setups are good, and it is beneficial that you can analyze data classification, which is critical as some regulations, such as GDPR, restrict moving data to the cloud. VMware vSAN's main benefits to users include better data security and the ability to classify data effectively. End-users may find it challenging to see the advantages because they often do not focus on what product is placed where. However, with separate classifications of data or VMs, users can be assured that classified data cannot be migrated out of a specific location. Ensuring data is secure is crucial for end-users who want to know that their data is protected from potential outside threats or attacks. Overall, my final point for VMware vSAN would be rather good. I would rate it about a nine in five years' time. However, you need to keep in mind that while VMware vSAN is good, it is more a package of everything. You cannot just buy VMware vSAN; you need to invest in the full suite of VMware products. It is essential to recognize the comprehensive package you are purchasing within VMware's ecosystem. Currently, I believe VMware provides some of the best virtualization, security, storage, and operational solutions on the market. My overall review rating for VMware vSAN is a nine.

I did not use VMware vSAN's automated provisioning extensively, so I cannot provide much insight on its impact regarding IT resource allocation and utilization. I have worked with Nutanix on both local on-premises clusters and cloud clusters. When comparing VMware vSAN to Nutanix, I am not specifically discussing Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure; I have worked with both cloud infrastructure and on-premises solutions. From my experience, Nutanix has advantages over VMware vSAN, with data locality being the bigger advantage. Through data locality, Nutanix provides good bandwidth for VMs and VMDKs. When running Nutanix on ESXi or running Nutanix AHV, they utilize data with very minimal latency. I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.

Based on my experience, I would recommend VMware vSAN to others. As a product, I rate VMware vSAN nine out of ten. My name is Ajit Varghese and my email address is ajit.varghese@manai.com.qa

I would suggest customers use VMware vSAN because VMware offers a stable solution with good hypervisors and the best features compared to other solutions. Comparing it to Nutanix, I prefer VMware due to its stability and features. I would give VMware vSAN a rating of ten out of ten.

My overall rating is eight out of ten.

There should be more clarity on pricing and how vSAN integrates and performs against competitors in terms of scalability and efficiency.

The tool does not make much of a difference in improving data center storage efficiency as it only shows some changes in appearance and offers a few additional features. When it comes to the projects managed by my company, I think VMware vSAN is very good for our organization's infrastructure, as it can add big value for us because in the past, we had used some traditional solutions, like Hyper-V from Microsoft. At the present time, I can't even compare Hyper-V and VMware since VMware vSAN is the black horse of virtualization. The specific feature of the product that has had the largest impact on our company's operations stems from the use of its virtualization capabilities. I don't need the tool for anything more than the virtualization part it offers. The product's scalability has been good and supportive of my organization's growth. I don't have any issues with the setup phase since I don't deploy it on the systems but I know that it is a complex process. The management of the product is very straightforward. I haven't had to handle any issues related to product management. VMware vSAN is a very good solution which is also very handy. I think the implementation isn't easy enough for someone to figure it out. You have to seek help from professionals to take care of the implementation because one mistake can cost you a lot. My company had no budget plans, so the implementation did not affect our company's overall IT budget and cost efficiency. The product has had a very good impact on our business since it has improved our overall speed and response time. I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

The product has simplified our storage management by reducing downtime during maintenance and allowing for seamless VM migration without disrupting ongoing work. It was most beneficial during our migration phase when we transitioned from a third-party storage solution to VMware vSAN. The seamless process helped resolve the challenges we faced with the previous solution. Integrating VMware vSAN into our existing vSphere environment has been smooth. It works seamlessly with our existing hardware platforms, such as those from HP and IBM, thereby increasing operational efficiency and reducing hardware costs. I recommend it to others and rate it an eight.

vSAN remains highly effective, and I would rate it around eight or nine overall.

The solution does not have any impact on virtual machine performance. The performance is not related to the vSAN stack. However, it is mandatory to consider better hardware resources. The solution enables us to integrate the latest storage and hardware. We have not integrated the product with any third-party solutions. We are planning to integrate with Kubernetes. We plan to deploy the next model of the tool with DC and DR architecture to support our data protection and high availability needs. I will recommend the product to others. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.

For now, I wouldn't recommend it because of the price. There are other products on the market that work well like Nutanix. In your opinion, these are better options. Overall, I would rate the solution a six out of ten.

We've been utilizing VMware vSAN internally within our organization for the past three years and offering it as a solution to our customers. It helps eliminate the need for external storage and leverage the latest technology provided by VMware. It significantly improved our storage efficiency by supporting disk groups. However, there were limitations as it only allowed for five disks. To enhance efficiency further, we needed the capacity to increase to at least seven disks per group. Additionally, for better tiering capabilities, it would be advantageous if it could support 12 disks per tier. The recent integration with VMware's ecosystem has improved our operations by simplifying deployment and management tasks. With internal integration, deploying and managing the repository from a single dashboard has become easier. The scalability has supported our business growth effectively. As an organization, we utilize it in various customer roles, which proves advantageous for our organization and clients. I recommend the product to customers looking for better and more efficient storage capacity. It is a good solution. I rate it a ten out of ten.

Considering my IT background, I would say that it is easy to learn to use the product. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

There are pros and cons. As long as there's VMware vSAN active in the business, the support team along with the hardware and the software services, are good. We've recently implemented vSAN in our Hypervisor. It's already proven on the infrastructure. The con is that VMware vSAN is no longer perpetual. You need to manage your budget on how everything is going to the cloud, and everything is paid for. If you're using proxmox or Hyper-V or other free redundancies when using VMware. VMware vSAN is the most wonderful hypervisor platform. It is the industry standard and is very prominent in the market. For advanced users, I recommend using Big Data with VMware. I suggest using vSAN because for automation for startup users. We can provide support for customers with lower budgets who are willing to get support from the system developer. VMware vSAN requires some human intervention. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Our clients are government and private customers working with VMware vSAN in the manufacturing, defense, oil and gas, and ITIS industries. The solution is generally built on top of the virtualization layer with VMware. It's a part of virtualization. The solution's performance and management are pretty easy. VMware vSAN is tightly integrated with other VMware products because it's a part of vSphere. It is tightly integrated with the virtualization layer. We can integrate and utilize VMware vSAN for other VMware products very easily. Using VMware vSAN is totally dependent on the customer's use case. A standard three-tier architecture is recommended for customers who want to use a tier-one application for ERP protection. VMware vSAN is recommended to customers with a use case for VDI, general-purpose computing, and test development environments. Overall, I rate VMware vSAN a nine out of ten.

I recommend VMware vSAN and rate it an eight out of ten. The product’s support team’s response time and pricing could be better.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. I would advise ensuring that the VPN destination is a good one and reliable. VMware-listed prerequisites on the websites are important, and clients should confirm services are good before deployment.

It's important to check the compatibility before deploying. This is a good solution and I rate it nine out of 10.

I would recommend this solution to others. It is easy to implement, scale, and maintain. The operational work required to maintain the platform is not that difficult. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I rate this solution nine out of 10.

VMware vSAN is the most trending hypervisor that most of the customers are working with. I would recommend this solution to others. I rate VMware vSAN a ten out of ten.

VMware vSAN is my main product, and I'm an integrator for it. The current version we're using is the VMware vSAN 6.2 version. The setup of VMware vSAN is the same setup as the ReadyNodes, because the ReadyNodes are built on top of vSAN technology. As for how long it takes to deploy, it depends on the number of hosts you're deploying. We have six clients currently using this software. For deployment and maintenance of VMware vSAN, we have two technical staff who are in charge: one for setting up the network, and the other one for setting up the physical environment. I'm recommending this software to others who want to start using it. You can install it on any kind of ReadyNodes. I'm rating VMware vSAN nine out of ten.

I rate VMware vSAN nine out of 10. I am a VMware fanatic. As a solution architect, I've designed solutions for many customers. Clients have personal preferences, and they're generally swayed by what the vendors tell them, but my perspective is purely technical. If you are going for features, scalability, and performance, VMware is the best solution. It's not dependent on any vendor. The VMware layer is there, and VMware is required, but it saves a lot of costs and provides flexibility. Let's say I bought around 10 or 15 servers, and I'm not satisfied with the performance. I can change my server and migrate all my workloads to the new servers in the future. VMware has an edge in terms of computing and networking because if we are going for a VMware infrastructure solution, there's a storage layer, so it can work with any kind of server or vendor. Suppose I buy some of my servers from Dell, some from HP, and a few from various companies. VMware gives you the flexibility to work with any vendor, networking, switches, and storage. They can come together in a complete software layer. I can have five servers from five different vendors. If I don't like one, I can plug in a server from any vendor in the stack, and it'll work.

I would definitely recommend it to others. vSAN is not suitable for all environments. It is better to do the assessment before going ahead with vSAN. I would rate it a seven out of 10.

My advice for anybody who is looking into implementing vSAN is that it's a good platform if you're working with VMware. My customers generally do not complain about vSAN. However, if they are interested in a Hyper-V or Nutanix environment then this is not a good solution. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

If you are already using VMware, then it is great to fun your applications and carries your infrastructure to the cloud. But, I would not recommend this solution to new customers. I give this solution a seven out of ten.

I would rate this solution 4 out of 10. For my needs on virtual machine and HCI, which is hyperconverged infrastructure, I have another solution that costs less and gives me better features. When it comes to one feature that only VMware supports, I had to pay. They have the patents, and they have things that only they can do. But I work in the telecom world, and we give services to a lot of companies. On my infrastructure, there are more than 80 million people using the infrastructure on a daily basis. Most of it is not VMware, and I'm so happy. For the last two years, Gartner and even Nutanix have been above VMware. My advice is to be sure you really need it, as there are other vendors in the market that give good solutions. Nutanix and Hyper-V give a solution that is good for most cases in the market. If I take the business world, 80% of the businesses in the world will be okay with other vendors and they cost less. My environment is 26 physical servers that aren't VMware and two physical servers that are VMware. Previously, we had 400 servers, and only five of them were VMware. When you look in the market, you know the better solution for your needs. No one in the world has been fired or lost their job for purchasing Cisco; it's the name. It's the same with VMware; it's just too expensive.

My advice for anybody who is considering this solution is that you need to think about what it's going to be used with. For example, it may be more or less suitable depending on whether it will be used for normal database applications, VDI, or something else. The reason it needs consideration is that the initial hardware purchase depends on it. With respect to the software, there is only one choice, which is the VM license. However, for the hardware, you have to think about the servers, including the storage and other components. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

I work for the portrait gallery and we just serve our own people. We don't sell to the outside. I don't use it for outside organizations. I'd advise potential new users to ask around for different suppliers who do it, just do a proper tender on supplying, and just to watch out for, if you're upgrading, how your backup treats the upgrade. That's a problem we had. We have Veeam, which is VMware, however, we made a mistake on using a new machine and trying to move stuff across and Veeam made it more complicated, which we didn't realize would happen. It's caused some issues. Our experience was good, however, I haven't got enough experience with the outside vendors who do this as I only work for this company and we only do the upgrade once every three years or so. That said, I'd advise users to go with someone who's got a good background or reputation. Overall, I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We have been working with vSAN for the last two years, and we haven't seen too many issues overall, but because of the troubles we have faced with the fact that vSAN doesn't let you put a node in maintenance mode unless you have six or more nodes, I would rate VMware vSAN a six out of ten.

I would highly recommend VMware vSAN to others. If others want to implement VMware vSAN I have experience with the Remote Office Branch Office(ROBO) solution. It's possible to deploy a virtual center during the installation of VMware vSAN. I recommend doing some studying before deploying it because there are some very good tips on YouTube on how to deploy it. It's a special method of how to deploy it, it's important to understand this method. I rate VMware vSAN a nine out of ten.

I would recommend this solution for all use cases. It works for all users and customers. It doesn't matter if it is inside the data center or outside the data center. It also works for VDI use cases. It just works. We have no problems with the vSAN solution, but it is very important that you use the recommended hardware from the compatibility list. If you follow the recommendations from VMware, you should have no problems. I would rate it a nine out of 10.

A good solution should be small and fast and at the moment VMware vSAN is the best product that can solve our use cases. I rate VMware vSAN a five out of ten.

We are a partner of different vendors, e.g. Dell, VMware, Microsoft, AWS, Azure, etc. As we are a partner, we don't use the technology. It's our customers who use it. We've been working with the newest model of VMware vSAN. There are four engineers who handle the deployment and maintenance of this product. I strongly recommend VMware vSAN to others because it is easy to manage, especially if you compare it with traditional server and network storage solutions. It's also easy to deploy. Upgrade and authorization for this product is also very easy. These are the reasons why I strongly recommend VMware vSAN to people looking into using it. I'm giving VMware vSAN a score of ten out of ten.

We are very satisfied with this solution. I would advise others to go ahead and just use it. I would rate it an eight out of 10. It is a good product.

I rate VMware vSAN nine out of 10.

I would rate it an eight out of 10.

I would rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

I rate VMware vSAN a nine out of ten.

We typically propose VMware to our customers. We advise the customer to switch to virtualization. The main point is the customer would like to recover their data. If they'll use the physical server they cannot meet the requirement of fast recovery of the data. That's why we ask customers to do the server control check into the virtualization. You can save a lot of time managing the physical server and have a lower cost for the backup option. You can have a better recovery solution is the main point our customer use VMware. I rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

If you want vSAN it is important that you understand all sides of the solution and have the right hardware solution. For example, you should consider if you need reliable disks for cache and split it into more clusters or groups. I would give this solution a five out of 10.

This is a product that I recommend. My advice for anybody who is implementing it is to use a hybrid or private cloud. It's scalable, robust, and secure. Do not go back to the old technologies. Instead, focus on security and a good design. Having a good design will save in terms of cost. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I rate VMware vSAN eight out of 10. In my opinion, vSAN is the most natural way to migrate to a fully hyperconverged solution. If a customer needs a more scalable solution with consolidated management, vSAN is excellent. It causes fewer disruptions from changing the administration. You need about the same amount of knowledge and expertise as vSphere.

My advice is if someone is interested in VMware vSAN it is a good solution. It is stable, supportive, and compatible with many solutions. VMware vSAN is the best. Customers have to consider when choosing VMware to receive a lot of features, such as replication backup, and if they went with another solution it would be more expensive. I rate VMware vSAN a nine out of ten.

It's important to use someone who is familiar with the solution to carry out the implementation. It's fairly straightforward but if you set it up incorrectly then you'll have issues with your underlying storage. It's worth having a professional service to manage things. I rate this solution 10 out of 10.

VMware vSAN is not right for all types of use cases. It is specific to an opportunity if the customer is looking at an interim solution and wants to keep the costs low. This environment is more to do with development testing. VMware vSAN is a good fit if you are looking at security and scale. In an environment that is more productive and needs better performance, this solution may not be the right fit. I would rate this solution a 9 out of 10.

I rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

I rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten. For virtualization, I would recommend Nutanix over VMware.

I can recommend VMware vSAN if there are problems that they face, such as limitations for their applications. It would be good to use VMware vSAN. If they have not found limitations in their operating system while working with Windows, they can use Microsoft Hyper-V instead. I rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

We are partners and also a solution provider. The solution is great. I'd rate it at a nine out of ten. I'd advise other people to give it a try.

I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten. We are very satisfied with its capabilities. I would recommend the solution to others.

My advice to others looking into implementing VMware vSAN is to stick to the rules. That's where the problem is. If you don't stick to the rules and prerequisites, you end up having a nightmare. People have a tendency to take hyper-converged solutions for granted. They function as the marketing says, as long as you follow certain rules. If those rules are not followed, you end up with a slower infrastructure than you ever had before. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten because it lacks flexibility. Those rules I'm talking to you about, how you have to follow the prerequisites, that is well hidden, is that you can't do what you want. You don't have total freedom. You have to respect the rules and that's why respecting the rules sometimes is a burden. They always recommend that nodes are the same type, have the same disk structure, and if you change some disk structures, you have to change them on all the nodes. Although somewhere it's understandable, it's a burden. It should not happen.

I would rate this solution 7 out of 10. My advice is to plan well which workload you're going to use for VMware vSAN. Not all workloads are suitable for VMware vSAN. Before using VMware vSAN, you should consider implementation planning, network sites, and group layout.

We are a customer and an end-user. We are using the latest version of the solution at this time. I'd recommend the solution to other users. It's easy to deploy and great for virtualization. I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten.

I would say that if you need more storage-level performance, scalability, or security, you can definitely consider using this solution. I would rate this solution as nine out of ten.

I rate VMware vSAN seven out of 10. I prefer a traditional SAN storage solution. Right now, we're only using vSAN for small solutions. At the basic level, it's good enough because it operates the same way as the traditional setup. It's suitable for companies that are starting and might expand in the near future. For those use cases, vSAN is a great choice compared to Hyper-V. It's much easier to maintain. However, I haven't deployed vSAN for a larger configuration.

I advise those people that have a large amount of data and they need very fast retrievals, they must use the scalable feature of VMware vSAN. I am fully satisfied with VMware vSAN. I rate VMware vSAN a nine out of ten.

This is a good solution. I rate VMware vSAN a ten out of ten.

I would recommend this solution to others. I would rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

I would recommend this solution to others. I rate VMware vSAN a nine out of ten.

I would advise others to do proper sizing and look at the features that they want to include or not include. They need to first understand their business needs and then do the sizing. This way they will get a good solution. I would rate VMware vSAN a nine out of 10.

We're a VMware partner. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. If you are using VMware for a long time, there is no need to change your platform, and you can easily add vSAN as a solution. On top of that, there are multiple tools available to be able to have a hybrid cloud solution available for vSAN. If you go with the VMware Cloud, you've got the SCA as well as a hybrid cloud solution in a single product. If you are not willing to use VMware, then you can definitely choose either Nutanix or maybe a Microsoft option or any number of other solutions that may be available in the market.

I rate vSAN eight out of 10. I would recommend it to others.

In my country, Myanmar, both VMware, and Cisco are the most reliable solution for networking and virtualization than other related solutions. Other vendors, such as Nutanix and SimpliVity are quite strange to our IT environments at this time. I rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

I would rate vSAN seven out 10.

I would recommend this solution to others, even though we are moving to another solution. We will be moving to Sempre. The support is cheaper, and the performance is good. It's a good choice for us and for our customers. I would rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

On a scale of one to ten I would give VMware vSAN an eight for the technology, eight for scalability, and a six for the price. Overall, I give it an eight.

We had a vSAN at my last company. I started my employment here at this new company one month ago and we do not have VMware products at all. Previously, I worked with vSAN simply as a customer and an end-user. I've used many versions of the solution. We started shortly before the 6.0 came out. We may have started with vSAN 5.5. That was the first version we ever used, and then we upgraded again and again over the years. I'd advise those considering the solution to think and plan before you simply do. You should do an accounting of what capacities, what performance, which backup you require or have. Do you need redundancy? Do you need network isolation? All the steps that normal people do afterwards should be done before you do it. Everything is about planning. I'd give the solution a perfect ten out of ten rating.

I think I am satisfied with the product. I would say it is so so. I rate VMware vSAN as a seven out of ten.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We have been pleased with its capabilities so far. I would recommend VMware. The vSAN is just part of VMware.

We have 50 users making use of the solution in our organization. I rate VMware vSAN as an eight out of ten.

If you have storage, separate servers, or any kind of traditional architecture you can convert it to FCI with vSAN. It is a very simple and easy-to-use solution. I rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

We're using version seven of the solution. I'm not sure if it is the latest version or not. I'd rate the solution at a nine out of then. I would recommend the solution to other users.

We are integrators and a partner to the vendor. We are working with the latest version of the solution at this time. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. Our clients are pretty happy with it overall. I'd recommend it to other users and companies.

There is a cloud offering of this solution but our customers always choose the on-premises version. Most of our customers do not use vSAN as a standalone solution but rather, as part of a hyper-converged infrastructure. We normally propose its use with a product like VxRail and my advice is not to implement it standalone. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I rate VMware vSAN a nine out of ten.

We are a customer and an end-user. We are not on the latest version. We are using the latest version minus one. I'd recommend this solution to others. I'd rate the product at an eight out of ten.

We are just a customer and an end-user. I'd recommend the solution to other organizations. I would rate it at a seven out of ten. We've been happy with it for the most part, however, we are looking at other options that offer more features. The standard version just isn't giving us enough of what we need. That said, it;'s a good product.

I would advise others to just make sure that latency is brought into the equation because being HCI, network latency determines everything. I would rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

You need to pay attention to the calculation metrics in terms of sizing. Depending on your design, you need to be sure that you actually factor in enough storage capacity to be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in terms of looking at your growth rate. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would rate this product at eight.

I would rate VMware vSAN a seven out of ten.

I will continue using and recommend this solution. I rate VMware vSAN a seven out of ten.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

There are many similar solutions on the market. With VMware you get ease of integration because any new product they bring to the market has VMware. I rate this solution an eight out of 10.

VMware vSAN may not be the right solution for everyone or for every solution. There might be more solutions that you want to consider depending on your issues of application deployment at hand. So you have to look at your own factors and compare solutions thoroughly before you make a big decision. I would rate VMware vSAN at an eight on a scale of ten.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I would recommend this solution, but you have to be careful about the license cost. It can get quite expensive. I would rate VMware vSAN a nine out of ten.

My advice when it comes to products like vSAN or Nutanix is that these are products for new customers. Existing customers have a classic architecture and they have no reason to implement a hyper-converged infrastructure. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

It is a good solution to implement if you have a lot of data. It is quite stable and not too difficult to manage. I would rate VMware vSAN a seven out of ten. It is a good solution, but it is too expensive.

I like this solution very much and I would recommend it. I would rate this solution a nine out of 10.

The solution is very good but the price is its downside, this is the reason for my low rating. I rate VMware vSAN a seven out of ten.

We are a partner of VMware. Customers considering the solution should be aware that the principal benefits they will get from the solution include integration with HCI, NSX, and cloud solutions. Overall, I would rate the solution nine ut of ten. We've had a good experience overall and our clients are happy with the product.

Make sure your hardware is up to date and make sure you test beforehand. It's a good idea to try and combine the solution with some third party products, such as products for automation. I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.

I would definitely recommend this solution, but be sure to study or complete part of the VMware documentation before you start implementing it. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of eight.

VMware vSAN is a very good product and I would recommend it for other customers. I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

We're a partner with VMware. Overall, I would rate them eight out of ten. They still have room for improvement. However, overall, we've been pleased with the results. It's easy to use, manage, and monitor. The solution is best suited for small to medium-sized organizations. If the solution is ideal for a company depends on the workloads and what they're trying to do right now. If a company would like to make a choice between the All-Flash or the Hybrid, I would definitely go for All-Flash. It may be a bit expensive as compared to Hybrid, however, definitely from a feature perspective and a performance perspective, All-Flash is the way to go.

I would advise doing your homework and making sure that it scales according to your expectations, performance, and ownership cost. DataCore is a company that competes against them. DataCore is more focused, whereas VMware is wide. DataCore is a little bit better in terms of due diligence and information. vSAN is one of the many products based on the VMware industry, whereas DataCore is very focused and very niche. They've been doing virtualization since 1986. I would rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

If you want a very simple structure, VMware vSAN is a good idea. If you have a larger and strong IT team and the cost is a factor for you, you can go for OpenStack. I would rate VMware vSAN an eight out of ten.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I would suggest that anyone looking to deploy this solution do their due diligence and try out other competitive products first, like Nutanix. I've used Nutanix in the past. I found it to be a more agile tool compared to VMware. VMware has only just recently started offering this HCI solution. If I was to rate vSAN from one to ten, 10 being best, I would give it an 8. Not a ten primarily because I haven't tested some aspects of the arrays at this point.

To me, VMware is a leader of virtualization. I think everyone just follows VMware. The reason why we use VMware is because all of the areas that VMware can provide. They fill a need for our platforms. There are other platforms now that provide similar solutions. In the old days, it was a simple Microsoft platform, and they had no management costs. Now they use VMN to create a cross-test and to link all of the servers they want. So they can provide restoration of servers. Furthermore, now they are integrating the movement towards cloud solutions. The only issues concerning the future of vSAN is the price. If someone builds a platform that is free, and only has to pay a license fee for a server, that may cause a problem for VMware.

I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. To make it a ten, it needs to be able to scale the amount of data that we can hold so we can put bigger, more data-intensive apps on it. My advice to a person looking at vSAN is get your hands dirty in the labs. Show how easy it is to set up, because it's not very complicated. It's an easy solution that you can implement at your company. Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: Since we're a hospital, we have multiple hospitals in the area. We look at local site resiliency, so we're looking to see if we can put it in each of our hospitals.

The advice I would give is to properly analyze your host infrastructure. Make sure that your network cards are sufficient for the environment you're trying to deploy in, whether it be all-flash. There are already some Ready Nodes available. Go with the Ready Nodes when it comes to vSAN. Don't try and buy your own parts - something we looked at originally that we scrapped. That would be my main advice. Go with Ready Nodes when it comes to virtual SAN. In terms of improving the product, we're very familiar with the new features in 6.7, which we're going to be upgrading to. Data encryption, we would like to deploy, as well as compression and deduplication. Those features are already available in the new version. We just have to take the time to deploy them. Out of ten, I'd give it an eight. We're very happy with the product. To bring it to a ten we'd rather not upgrade as often. Right now, we're at 6.2 and that wasn't long ago. They're already going to 6.8 now. We'd like to have a little bit of a normalization period before we get to the next product. I understand it's a focus for VMware. We're very happy they're focusing on it.

Do your research, dig, find out what your particular needs are, what would the overall cost be to - sometimes it's a forklift, sometimes it's a migration. But look at all the factors, look at the requirements of vSAN, look at the requirements of other hyperconverged solutions, and then make the decision. I would rate vSAN as a solid nine. To get it to a ten it would need: the ability to support a SAN and a little bit of a larger scale. Those would be the two things that I would request.

We give it nine out of ten. They are going down the right path. When they started, we saw a lot of improvements with a lot of focus on the product, even in VM World. There were announcements in the features for improvement with vSAN. We continue to see VMware keeping up-to-date with vSAN, not putting the product aside.

When we're choosing a vendor, there are two factors involved, and the lowest price isn't always the most important. We need a vendor who provides really good support and products that really meet our needs well. I'm going to rate it as a ten out of ten, because it just works. It's always solid.

The product is at least an eight to eight and a half out of ten. Because the feature growth that I've seen them put into the product since we've been with them since 5.5, they are innovating with each release. They're adding more features and all that adds up to a better ROI on our investment. As we were consolidating so many servers, we had a really high consolidation ratio. We wanted to have something that was close to being local disk. However, we also needed to have redundancy so we could take a node down for maintenance or if a node would crash. All the same standard reasons of why you would want high availability. What I look to see in a vendor is good customer support. I want to talk technical with someone. I don't want a lot of marketing PowerPoint stuff. I want to talk to people that know the product very well. Because if I start using the product, I will need that support on the back-end. I don't want to be flailing by myself in the wind. I want to have good expertise that I can call on to help.

If I had to rate vSAN, I would give it a nine out of ten. When we're choosing a vendor, we're looking at the ability for the vendor to be in business: * The viability of the vendor * Its reputation in the marketplace * The technical solution. These have a lot to do with our decision to work with a particular vendor. We typically seek out the best-of-breed solutions and try to adhere to those. At the same time, we try to work with the same vendors over and over, because we have existing relationships to leverage and existing expertise around the solutions that are adjacent to what we may be evaluating.

On a scale of one to ten, I am giving it a nine. It's probably because I can't bring myself to give a ten for anything, in case it could be improved.

I would rate the solution somewhere around an eight out of ten. It is in the perfect place. There is room for improvement, but with the current versions, we are in a good stage.

If I had a colleague in the field, what I would tell him is that vSAN is great. I would do four nodes instead of three. Make sure that you're safe. Four or five will get you right where you need to be. You won't have any problems. That would be a tip I would give: Go for four nodes. vSAN is definitely worth the money. I would say it's a nine out of ten. It's not perfect, but it's almost there, and it's great.

I'd say vSAN, on a scale of one to 10, would be a seven or an eight now. (If I have to choose it's a) seven. But with what I've heard while I've been at VMworld, I'd say that they'll probably go up to an eight.

Make sure you do a proof of concept. And look at your options for hardware if you're looking at vSAN, compared to some competitors where you have just one option. I would rate the solution at eight out of ten. To get to a ten they would have to drop the cost. That would get a point right there. Then, going forward, I'd like to see better integration with Update Manager. Some of the manual processes that you still have to do, being able to automate those, have it do them on its own, would be great.

Go with the full managed support, something like VxRail or, if you go with Cisco, get their full central management system. vSAN alone, with the current features and version we're at, rates an eight out of ten. The vendor would be a definite one out of ten. To make the solution a ten, it needs to be vanilla. There shouldn't be any custom drivers, any custom anything. It should just be, "Hey, you know what? These drivers are going to work for this version, the next version, and the version after that." That's the difficulty in this. It takes too much upkeep.

Give it a try.

The most important criteria when selecting a vendor for us are the stability of the product, as much uptime as we can get, and service contracts so that we can get people to react more quickly to cases that we open and get things escalated properly. I rate vSAN at nine out of ten. What would help make it a ten would be if we didn't have so much inconsistency in the information around how to deploy it. That that would be a little bit better.

Look at the ROI carefully, and make sure that you can hit that before pushing the product. It's cheap, easy, and good for low-end customers. We're a small market, rural area, so we have low-end customers. Price point is just about everything for us. I would rate vSAN at nine out of ten. What would make it a ten would be lower pricing.

I would tell a colleague to highly consider it. Do your research and test it. If it fits, it fits. We've been live about nine months so I would rate it at eight out of ten right now, just because I haven't used it long enough to be confident to say ten. To get it to a ten it will need to be stable for 12 months.

My advice is to look beyond what your initial scope is. If you're looking at using it just for VDI implementations, look at more than just that and how you can leverage it for a lot of different datasets in your data center. When I look to work with a vendor it's important to find one that is agnostic to either software or hardware and a solution that fits our specific environment.

For me, vSAN is a nine out of 10. I don't know what could make it a 10 because I have not really compared it with other products in the last three years. Maybe today there are other products that are better. When we started using it three years ago, vSAN was, perhaps, a seven out of 10 but they have improved the features.

Be careful of your FTT policies. I rate it a nine out of ten. It would be a ten if it had better deduping, compression, and the ability to Snapshot volumes on the back-end.

Do your homework. Make sure you know what kind of IOPS and latency requirements you need to meet. Picking hardware is not hard anymore. Everybody has an HCL. vSAN has a great list. Just pick what you want and go, it's not that hard. I rate it at eight out of 10 because nothing is perfect. I'm hard to please. I'm not saying there are growing pains, but vSAN was still new at the time. They didn't have dedupe and compression yet. The performance was pretty good. Most of it was hybrid in the beginning, but now with all-flash, it's speedy, when it needs to be. It's a young product and nobody gets a 10 out of the gate.

Make sure your storage network is strong. But I would recommend vSAN. It's a pretty solid product now that's it's at 6.5 Update 2. I know that it's going to get better, but right now I'm pretty happy with where we're at. I would rate it at seven out of ten. Nothing's perfect. There's always room for improvement.

You'd want to give it a 10 out of 10 based on what they're doing in the future, but if you always give a company a 10 they'll feel like they're already there. I would actually rate vSAN one below Nutanix, as far as maturity of the model goes. I would give vSAN a very solid eight. There is room for improvement to catch up to Nutanix. Nutanix is definitely a nine. Again I don't like giving anybody a 10 because we always want to see what the next evolution or innovation is that they're bringing to the table. The way vSAN would get to a 10 depends on how they get me to "tomorrow".

I would definitely go with the vSAN solution. A lot of times, it's less expensive than third-party software, and it's not managed via third-party plugins. It's there, it's native to the ecosystem, and it works.

Go for it. As long as you don't have a very high IOPS-oriented application, it's a great way to go. I rate it eight out of 10. While it's a little too early to tell, it doesn't seem like it gives the performance that an actual SAN would give for heavy IOPS, read/writes.

The hybrid storage strategy is not the best thing you can do; for example, when you're mixing standard drives and flash drives, SSDs. Do all SSDs if you can afford it. I give vSAN an eight out of ten. It can stand some improvement, but it's much better than it was three years ago when I looked at it.

I would ask a colleague who is looking at this type of solution, "Do you need storage for VMs?" Hands-down, if you need storage for VMs, vSAN is your option. If you need a SAN for some other reason, other than storage for VMs, then go for it. But if you're running VMware VMs, buy vSAN. I like vSAN because they release features incrementally, every year, and you don't have to upgrade your hardware to get those features. If you bought a traditional SAN, you would have to upgrade your hardware constantly, every three years: You would get it, and it is how it is for three years. But on vSAN, you upgrade when you have to, when your hardware gets old or when you need more capacity. It's great, you get new features constantly. I would rate vSAN at eight out of ten. It could get to a ten, once we have more time running it.

If you're going to run vSAN, make sure that you stick to the HCL and that your firmware and your drivers match what's on the HCL before you implement it or go live with it. When selecting a vendor, for us, support is number one, the support that we can get from them. The other factor would be the forward-looking direction of the company.

It's great for DevTest and, as long as you're not going to be consuming data at huge rates, it's great for Prod too. I would rate vSAN as six-and-a-half or seven out of ten, but only because of the major problems we experienced with them a few months ago that led to some big outages. From what I understand, the current version alleviates those issues. If we're evaluating the current version, I would give it an eight. It would be a ten if there were more robust lifecycle management and a better-documented implementation within vSphere.

When vSAN was introduced we were quite excited about it. We were looking for something that was not traditional and we wanted something hyperconverged. vSAN was a perfect fit for us. I rate the solution an eight out of ten. To get to a ten it would need improvement in the Health status checkup.

The solution is an eight out of ten. To get to a ten it would need to be more stable and easier to upgrade.

Properly align your workloads to the storage policies and make sure you know what your workloads are before you leverage vSAN. Have a good understanding of the size of your VMs, the amount of change that they have, and how you are going to be doing maintenance in your cluster. Understand the workload and what you're going to be doing with it before you jump in.

I would definitely tell colleagues to move towards this solution. I've had a lot of people wanting to go to Hyper-V, not VMware. I have told them VMware is much more mature, it's got the feature list, it has a lot of good qualities.

If you're coming from a small enough environment, where you have to provision out a stand-alone datastore for this, and you don't have the resources to do it, I would definitely say go look at vSAN for that, because you can definitely combine your compute and resources into one environment.

As far as a software-based, storage control product, it is great. They are staying ahead of a lot of the competition out there. vSan is what a lot of the competition is using.

Give it a look. It will save you time and money.

Make sure you use a solution that is supported. There are a lot of companies out there that are new and sometimes they don't have a life. We have been in that situation before where we have bought something and then it has gone end-of-life or no more support. Make sure you get a solution that is going to be supported for five to seven years, such as vSAN. I would rate it at nine out of 10. I know it's very young and that they're growing it or doing a lot of updates to it, so I'm thinking it will be a 10. It's just very new to us. To make it a 10 will take some time.

I rate it at 10 out of 10 because it is just a really good product. I've used other products like it and it seems to be the most stable and easiest to configure.

I rate vSAN a 10 out of 10 because the VMware team works with my team to develop a better, more timely response. We have made improvements for the federal government. We have been working with VMware for almost 15 years

Coming from the early networking days when storage was software-defined, and seeing the announcement of this product caught my interest. The platform has been improved much over the first version. Today, we are comfortable running any of our mission critical apps on it.