--- title: VMware vSAN Reviews meta_title: 'VMware vSAN Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 192 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how VMware vSAN works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 192 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-19' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # VMware vSAN Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions ](https://www.g2.com/categories/hyperconverged-infrastructure-hci-solutions) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 192 ## About VMware vSAN VMware vSAN is VMware’s integrated, hyperconverged storage software in VMware Cloud Foundation, enabling a cloud operational model for storage within VMware's premier private cloud platform. vSAN, as a part of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF), enables management of compute and storage with a single, integrated platform. vSAN delivers the agility, scalability, and performance essential for today’s dynamic applications and workloads. With direct integration into VCF and VVF, vSAN ensures unmatched storage efficiency, performance, and operational simplicity. vSAN empowers organizations to build, manage, and optimize private clouds using standardized storage building blocks, with the added flexibility to integrate seamlessly with edge and hybrid cloud environments. ## VMware vSAN Reviews ### 1. Simplifies Storage Management with Strong Performance and Visibility **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eduardo F. | Consulate Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2026 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I like how it simplifies storage management by converging compute and storage into a single platform. Instead of managing storage arrays, storage resources are aggregated directly from ESXi hosts, which reduces the infrastructure complexity and operational costs. It also, the combination of performance, simplicity, and operational visibility. From the support standpoint, it provides excellent visibility into the health of the storage. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** One limitation is that it is tightly coupled to the VMware Ecosystem. Organizations that operate heterogeneous environments or want greater flexibility in their infrastructure choices may find that this increases vendor dependency. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves several challenges associated with traditional storage infrastructure. Historically, organizations had to manage separate storage arrays, storage networks, and visualization platforms, which increased complexity, operational overhead, and troubleshooting effort. vSAN consolidates storage directly into the vSphere environment, allowing compute and storage resources to be managed as a simple platform. ### 2. Cost-Effective Solution for Educational Labs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen Reddy C. | Java Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2026 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I used VMware vSAN for connecting to practice networking lab sessions in college. It's great for universities since it makes managing large, complex lab setups easy and cost-effective, saving on infrastructure and other costs. Instead of having to buy expensive external drivers, we use vSAN, which helps free up the budget for students instead of spending on hardware. The initial setup was straightforward, requiring just a couple of instructions. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** If there is a scenario where hundreds of students log in at the same time, VMware vSAN can bottleneck, causing frustratingly slow desktop and app loading times. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMware vSAN saves on infrastructure costs for complex lab setups in universities, eliminating the need for expensive external drives, freeing up budget for students. ### 3. Cost effective HCI Storage Solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek D. | Sr. Network & Systems Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It's more granular & efficient than creating LUNs like in the past. With vSAN your datastore is easier to manage. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Strict requirements if upgrading to vSAN ESA, you need vsan ready nodes which are NVMe-only, if you have SAS disks then you need to use the OSA architecture. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has allowed us to use local storage from our ESXi nodes to build our datastore. It solved our IOPS issues we had with traditional SAN. ### 4. VMware vSAN your new business storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hla Bhone A. | System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** As someone working in a virtualized environment, what I really like about VMware vSAN is how it makes storage super simple. Since it’s built right into the ESXi hypervisor, I don’t need to deal with separate storage systems — everything is managed straight from vCenter. It’s a lot easier to handle, especially when you’re managing both compute and storage in one place. Makes day-to-day operations smoother and less of a headache. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Licensing can get expensive, and troubleshooting isn’t always straightforward if you’re new to vSAN. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** vSAN solves the hassle of managing separate storage systems by combining compute and storage into a single platform. For me, it means easier setup, centralized management through vCenter, and less time spent troubleshooting traditional SAN issues. It also scales easily as our environment grows. ### 5. Innovation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I like that they finally came together in one unified storage solution that actually works as if you had a separate attached storage device like pure or other devices. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Still new to the concept and trying to vet the ROI from changing from pure infrastructure over to back to vsan **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** One unified storage solutions that is capable underneath the VCF umbrella which brings all the it teams together as one. ### 6. Effortless to Use and Flexible Hardware Support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elias M. | Senior Technical Operations Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Ease of use, vSAN works on different hardware. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** There is no particular area I dislike about vSAN. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Disaggregated storage. Usually you don't need to be a full blown storage administrator. ### 7. Powerful and most scalable storage solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** srinivas K. | GM Business Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Flexible storage expansion allows me to ad more storage . It offers high performance, user friendly support **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** You must stick to VMware’s Hardware Compatibility List **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** vSAN is offering Scalability storage solution with great user experience. Flexible configuration and improving quality of our infrastructure every day ### 8. Competitive Edge **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** The speed and ease of management! vSAN is a fantastic addition to my VMware stack. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** I cannot create a volume to share out, that is multi-protocol. I can't do NFS AND CIFS/SMB on the same system. This is limiting factor for our Linux devs. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was extremely cost effective versus standing up a separate storage array. ### 9. vSAN has reduced the overhead of managing additional storage solutions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** will k. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** convenience is the best part about vSAN. Single pane of glass for managing storage policies **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** vSAN is difficult to troubleshoot because of how complex it is **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeps our datacenter foot print smaller since we don't need a separate storage solutions. It also handles fail over for us as we are a stretched cluster ### 10. vSAN reduces storage complexity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles Z. | ICS OT Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** vSAN make it easier to configure and maintain storage. Lessening our footprint in the data center by eliminating the need for external storage like NAS or SAN. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** I find it difficult to understand what RAID configurations are in use and for what files **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidating compute and storage. Shrinking data center footprint. ### 11. Easily manages storage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elaine M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** The interface allows me to view status and make changes without getting confused. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** I haven't experienced any downsides at this time **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it for ensuring that we have proper backups of the system. ### 12. Reliability, and resilience and time to deploy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kofi S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Little overhead as it is already available on the server. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Readily available on the hosts as opposed to accessing legacy SAN. Downside is having to evacuate during maintenance. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reliable storage ### 13. I work and support vSAN everyday **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joel M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** The most helpful is that it's integrated into vCenter and it's abstracted as a single Datastore **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** When it breaks or when its misconfigured **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are cloud providers so we solve the problem of maintaining the product ### 14. convergence **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alberto B. | System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** we currently are not using vSAN, we have a SAN, but considering implement vSAN **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** im not currently using vSAN, but i think its a good product according to the explanation **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** no one at this momnet ### 15. VSAN **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It allows for expansion of compute and storage as needed for the environment. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Nothing at this time everything is still in testing. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Still testing ### 16. experience the mountain **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sumanth t. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Compression and deduplication Scalability **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Disk groups and hybrid model with osamodel **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Locally attached storage and scalability benefits you. ### 17. Best HCI storage in the market, hands down. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** So easy to setup, fastest HCI storage you can build. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Still can't remove a single dead disk from vSAN without multiple reboots and sometimes having to physically remove the disk just to get it out of VSAN, quite a pain **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster time to production for VMware clusters and reducing cost of hosted company block storage, ### 18. I have deployed VSAN for several customers as a consultant. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It really does make SDN better than traditional storage SAN arrays, since it scales both storage space & IO/throughput when we add more nodes. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Easy to break, hard to troubleshoot. We need less complex setup. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted to move from traditional SAN storage to SDN since it seemed cheaper & scaled easier. ### 19. Resilience is King **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** vSAN has a great feature set to easily deploy and expand clusters. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Depending on the use case the underlying infrastructure can be expensive. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fault tolerance and high performance are the two key features that we utilize. ### 20. vSAN performance increases over traditional storage arrays is worth it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I like the performance increases for our storage plus the visibility to troubleshoot performance issues. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** It is complicated to architect and migrate from traditional arrays, but ultimately worthwhile. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better storage management and performance. ### 21. VSAN is a great product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** The flexibility to integrate with whole ecosystem **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Nothing in specific. It's a great product **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Virtualization of Storage. We combine all our spare storage space through VSAN ### 22. Very good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Everything is simpler and just works. Storage is optimized **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** The gui is a little complex the first timw you start using it **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems yet ### 23. Review Vsan **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2025 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It is cheap and high performance. Easy to implement. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Licensing model. It was very expensive and prevented implementation. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Excellent to be used with horizon ### 24. We have had a great experience using vSAN for our infrastructure. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** vSAN is good in simplifying storage management, enhancing performance, and integrating with VMware's ecosystem. Its hyper-converged infrastructure offers scalability, while built-in data services optimize storage efficiency. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** VSAN include its dependency on VMware's ecosystem, which can limit flexibility for mixed environments. Also the licensing costs is high, and the complexity of configuration and management may pose challenges for some organizations. Lastly, performance can be impacted if not properly sized or optimized for specific workloads. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage management complexity ### 25. Why I used VMware vSAN over other storage products **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dilshan L. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** VMware vSAN is software software-defined storage solution. When we are using vSAN we do not need to maintain separate storage solutions. It reduces the CAPEX & OPEX cost and administrative overhead. These days companies are more concerned about cost. This is a major benefit of using vSAN. Maintaining separate hardware storage devices requires knowledgeable technical people. We need to purchase a separate SAN device from another vendor. It will create huge administrative overhead for the company. Using vSAN we can save power, cooling, cabling & space costs. VMware vSAN is a very reliable, fast storage solution. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Scaling up vSAN is difficult with VCF. We cannot scale up one server of the cluster when using vSAN with VCF. We need to upgrade all the servers. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduce CAPEX & OPEX costs - We do not need to purchase & maintain separate SAN solutions. Using an integrated server ( for RAM, CUP, and Storage) instead of a separate solution will reduce the power, cooling, cabling & space costs. Reduce administrative overhead - Maintaining a single vendor instead of multiple vendors reduces the administrative overhead ### 26. Our experience with VMware vSAN **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oswaldo T. | Ingeniero de Telemetría, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** VMware vSAN has been a game-changer for our organization. The ease of deployment and management is unparalleled, saving us time and effort. The performance is exceptional, providing the speed and reliability we need for our virtualized environment. The scalability of vSAN has allowed us to grow our infrastructure seamlessly, without any downtime. The cost savings are also significant, as we've been able to utilize our existing hardware more efficiently. Overall, VMware vSAN has exceeded our expectations and has become an integral part of our IT infrastructure. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Some aspect may be complex to configure and manage requiring a deep understanding of storage and virtualization concepts. The licensing cost of vSAN can also be a concern if you have tight budget **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** vSAN eliminates the need for separate storage arrays, reducing complexity and streamlining management tasks, aditionally it provides high-performance storage with built-in features like data deduplication, compression, and RAID, ensuring data availability and integrity an finally it seamlessly integrates with VMware's virtualization platform, allowing organizations to leverage existing skills and investments. ### 27. vSAN-Ultimate VMware HCI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Md Tanjil Islam B. | Infrastructure Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2020 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Easy to manage, easy to scale up, better performance, and monitoring. Ability to stretch the cluster across the city to form a vSAN stretch cluster, which is definitely a great feature by VMware. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Host Isolation due to network failure can cause the data loss also. It requires SSD disk for form a vSAN cluster, which could be a budget issue for future expansion. Always recommended to use the same hardware, so it could be difficult to expand the cluster size after one or more business year as the hardware specs might get changed by the hardware vendor. **Recommendations to others considering VMware vSAN:** Please consider a minimum of 5 physical hosts for the vSAN production cluster. Please make sure at least 2 SSD drive for creating a disk group for better performance. It will reduce the cost of purchasing and maintaining another storage (which might require additional skilled resources to maintain). Please purchase the vSAN ready node, which is available from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Huawei. Please consider the latest hardware and do a proper sizing plan for future expansion. It is always good to create new cluster instead of expanding the old cluster. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are running VMware Horizon Desktop and Workspace One (Airwatch) on the vSAN platform. It is built with HP vSAN ready nodes (specialized server designed for vSAN environment). Where the users are accessing the order processing application of a pharmaceuticals company. We are using some install clone feature from Horizon for which vSAN is doing great to provide better performance. ### 28. VSAN For the Data Center, Great Replacement for 3-Tier **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rodney B. | Server Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Prior to VSAN, we were had been a traditional SAN environment. Having the seperate fabric switch, having to make changes to add or remove host, was always a hassle. Moving to VSAN Ready nodes just makes managing storage easy. Need more space, Add a node to the cluster. Now, with VSAN Max, other storage can be tied to it. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** So far, I have not seen any downsides. There is the issue of having configured one large VSAN pool, so if I rename a VM, I can no longer vMotion to other storage to get the folder names\structure changed on the storage. However, I beleive that is more of how it was deployed rather than a limitation within VSAN. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** The complexity of managing a traditional three tier infrastructure and the management overhead that goes with it. ### 29. vSAN - Resilient storage, scalable and easy to maintain! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexandar V. | Senior Engineer HCI, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I really appreciate the ease of deployment, as well as being very scalable with downsizing or upscaling existing clusters. vSAN as a storage is very resilient, self-healing, and very easy to manage. In a few minutes, you can easily deploy large clusters so implementation is a peace of cake. VMware support is highly competent and replies almost immediately upon opening a ticket. You have a bunch of features such as deduplication and compression, various types of RAID levels, encryption, file services, and so on. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** The initial cost for the certified hardware and license costs. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps solve the need of fast and resilient storage in remote offices and branches, in places not having the possibility for using FC or File-based storage. As HCI solution it helps build quality data centers everywhere, even on vehicles. ### 30. vSAN is versatile and effective virtualization data storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Travis R. | Information Technology Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** vSAN can be a truely set-it and forget-it solution in terms of administration. It is can be scaled and tailored to fit storage requirements. Its integration with the VMware environements provide a stability, resiliance, and automated monitoring capabilities. It is an ideal choice with any HCI deployments and its featureset including functionality, performance, and reliability is continously growing. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Cost and procurement can be a challenge for smaller and medium sized deployments and depending on your current licensing my increase your budget for storage-heavy virtual environments. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** vSAN provides a storage-tier for my virtulization environement that require little to no-maintenance, it is scalable for future growth, and its integration with Skyline provides me with the piece of mind that everything is running smoothly. ### 31. VMware vSAN is great for HCI Storage on vSphere Clusters **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan L. | Server Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I like how easy it is to setup and the fact that is "just works" with my vSphere clusters. Not only does if provide for all the options you would want for an enterprise deployment, but configuring those options is simple in the vCenter interface I am already use to using. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** The only issues I have seen in my experience involve hardware not listed on the HCL, or in 2-node cluster scenarios where the cluster looses network connectivity with the vSAN Witness node. Both of those issues are easily correctable, however having additional flexibility would make vSAN even better. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Resilient storage for remote office/branch office locations, this is exremely beneficial for us to maintain critical operations at remote branch locations where we cannot afford to have downtime. ### 32. VSAN **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** vSAN is completely integrated into our envrionment. I like the dedpulication features. I like ease of adding and removing storage from the environment. I very much enjoy the tight integration with the environment. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** There is very little that I dislike about vSAN. All could also be equated to my lack of knowledge. Which in itself is a drawback, a lot of vSAN information is not out front and center. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrated storage ### 33. Performance boost **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mario Rafael V. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** VMware vSAN offers powerful storage performance with excellent scalability, making it a great choice for organizations needing efficient, high-performance storage. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** It requires resources cpu and memory to work **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not being dependable to a third storage solution ### 34. virtual storage that's cool but... **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aitor F. | Técnico de compras, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It is easy to configure and manage from the same vCenter, without the need for additional hardware or software. It saves you space and costs, as you don't need to buy external storage arrays or licenses from other manufacturers. It allows you to take advantage of VMware technologies, such as vMotion, HA, DRS, etc., and the specific functionalities of vSAN, such as deduplication, compression, encryption, etc. It gives you the option to choose between different types of disks (SSD, HDD, NVMe, etc.) and to configure the level of data protection according to the number of failures you want to tolerate. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** It requires quite demanding minimum hardware and software requirements, such as having at least three ESXi hosts, a 10 Gbps network card, a compatible version of vSphere, etc. It can generate high network traffic between cluster nodes, especially if there are many write operations or data resynchronizations. It may have compatibility issues with some devices or drivers that are not certified by VMware, which can affect the operation or technical support of vSAN. It can be difficult to monitor and diagnose in case there is a failure or incident, as many vSAN logs and parameters need to be reviewed. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not having to buy or maintain external storage cabinets, which are expensive and take up space ### 35. Review of vSAN **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I like the ability to manage compute, memory, and storage in a single interface. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** I have had challenges with identifying issues as being a VMware support concern or a concern of the hardware vendor, and the support teams would sometimes point to the other vendor. Also, early on I would get bad advice from the hardware vendor on troubleshooting vSAN issues, e.g. 'just hot swap the failed (cache) disk'. Fortunately I was well-read on how vSAN functioned and didn't heed that directive. But in the last few years it seems vendors' support teams are more aware of the nature of vSAN. I would like to be able to split a vSAN datastore into separate partitions in order to do functions like rename VMs and their folders/files via storage vMotion, without having to stand up a separate datastore. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Less hardware to manage (no separate SAN/NAS); more peers understand and administer VMware but not storage platforms. ### 36. VMware vSAN - the leading HCI technology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** What you will love most about VMware vSAN is its ease of use. With just small amount of effort both time and knowledge wise, you are able to get a very powerful distributed storage system that simply works. It uses your standard network and delivers distributed system that is able to support even the most demanding workload. It is very easy to implement and as most capabilities are tied to software defined approach, you are able to get more features with regular product updates. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** There can be some tricky corner cases that may trigger for certain workloads in combination with certain vSAN cluster configs. I especially advise to read all design materials with ephasis on one large vSAN cluster versus more smaller VSAN clusters. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** vSAN is able to simplify all general purpose demanding workloads. It helps with many aspects that would have to be solved with traditional HW setups and specific storage fabrics. vSAN is able to work in most scenarios supporting the most demanding workloads like DB servers, SAP implementations etc. ### 37. Benefits of vSAN for HCI Systems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** We use vSAN with Dell VxRail HCI systems and have found the following use cases to be extremely useful in our environment: 1. Deduplication and Compression - Huge storage cost savings by checking these boxes 2. vSAN Encryption - We use Cloudlink as a key provider for our encryption and it integrates well with vSAN 3. Skyline Health - Self diagnostics and alerting built in to vSAN that monitors every component and makes it simple to find KBs for common issues 4. High Availability - Between HA, DRS, and vSAN Disk Group management, a lot can go wrong in your cluster before it affects VM uptime **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** The only major difference I've noticed between vSAN and traditional SAN is ESXi maintenance. With SAN, we could easily put any ESXi host into maintenance mode without affecting the storage whatsoever. With vSAN, an ESXi host must first evacuate data or stay under the faults to tolerate before doing any maintenance which can lead to much longer cluster maintenance windows. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrates storage with the system (HCI) to move away from traditional SAN requirements and headaches ### 38. vSAN a reliable and efficient solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abel B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** One of the aspects I appreciate most about VMware vSAN is its seamless integration with VMware's virtualization platform. The tight integration allows for easy deployment and management within existing VMware environments, reducing complexity and streamlining operations. Additionally, vSAN's software-defined storage approach eliminates the need for dedicated storage hardware, enabling cost savings and flexibility in scaling storage capacity. The ability to leverage server-side flash and SSDs for caching enhances performance, while features such as data deduplication and compression optimize storage efficiency. Overall, VMware vSAN offers a comprehensive solution for hyper-converged infrastructure, providing a simplified and efficient storage solution for virtualized environments. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** while VMware vSAN offers significant benefits in terms of storage efficiency, scalability, and integration with VMware's virtualization platform, organizations should carefully evaluate their specific requirements and considerations before deploying vSAN to ensure it aligns with their objectives and infrastructure capabilities. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** VMware vSAN solves common storage challenges by providing a scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective storage solution that simplifies management, enhances performance, and improves flexibility for organizations' virtualized environments. ### 39. early adopter **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kent J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** we were an early adopter and selected vSan as out preffered stoarge technology about 5 years ago **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** More drive compatability would be good!!! **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** performance at a price that is acceptable. and reliability second to none ### 40. Solid performance from a budget-friendly solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan S. | Principal Systems Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** I was really impressed with how vSAN performed and simplified the storage usage of the prototype cluster I initially deployed. We used the same approach then to develop a prototype and final solution, which is where the budget-friendly part comes in. I was able to leverage lessons-learned, as well as upgrade licenses to quickly deploy a tested solution that allowed me to take full advantage of the hardware solutions on-hand - basically maximising our storage utilization. It also helped that when we had to run a full-stack upgrade that vSAN continued to perform flawlessly as we did rolling updates during a maintenance cycle. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** The initial set-up at the time was a challenge and we needed to bring in a vSphere tech to help us identify some unique configurations to help us get going - While that may not be the case every time, it did slow us down initially which was unfortunate at the time. Recent licencing changes do have us concerned, but we're still assessing impacts. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to shrink the physical footprint of a deployable solution. vSAN offered us a way to take advantage of datacenter and ruggedized solutions in smaller and smaller footprints with no drop-off in performance or capability. ### 41. Storage Virtualization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark F. | Enterprise Unified Cloud Services Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** ability to have shared cluster storage across the datacenter **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** I have not had any issues with our vsan clusters **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** shared cluster storage ### 42. It is a great storage solution for your vSphere cluster **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander L. | IT Consultant & Technical Instructor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It is very simple to enable and manage in the same vSphere client! **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** HCL sometimes quite difficult to fulfill in existing equipment **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** No ### 43. hands on experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** david s. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Ease of Use, Feature set, stability, performance **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Licensing cost is the only issue i can think of **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** no need for traditional san ### 44. An elegant SAN solution... **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melwyn M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** VMware VSAN is a highly efficient, scalable and fully integrated solution managed through vCenter. Some of the advantages include.. Reducing TCO: By using already available hardware instead of buying new. Spinning disks can be used with SSDs to increase storage capacity with substantial increase in performance compared to an all spinning disk Storage array. Scalability: Doesn't require expensive, proprietary hardware and off-the-shelf hardware can be used for increases in speed/capacity. Management: Tightly integrated with the already familiar interface of vCenter which is used for everyday management and implementation. Data Resiliency: Includes features like snapshots, replication and data migration for data resiliency and disaster recovery. Overall a very good addition to the VMware suite or products. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** The cost can be a bit of a hurdle specially for small businesses. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of management from a central location and helping reduce TCO of SAN infrastructure. ### 45. VSAN **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa W. | System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Less setup time and easier to deploy. Only one datastore to manage **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Putting a host into maintenance mode takes a lot longer **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Less setup of datastores. Less patching and management ### 46. Fantastic experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** giovanni a. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** We use VSAN with several clients. It's a technology we like. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Probably the high costs and maintenance **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hyperconvergence ### 47. use vsan in more cusstomer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Milan S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** easy to use and implementation, ease of integration **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** customer Support Number of Features Frequency of Use **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** remote location ### 48. Benefits and Ease of Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kanwar S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It's in my honest opinion, the single most robust, easy to setup and optimize at scale solution that's present on the market. I don't see a rival anytime soon. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Nothing much to add. Although, it'd be great to have it licensed alongwith vSphere Enterprise plus license. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Abilitiy to accomodate ~100,000 VDI workloads ### 49. Good but getting better **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** Cost to performance ratio, much cheaper than enterprise solutions **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Some missing features such as ransomwere protections and global dedup that we got with other vendors but those appear to be getting resolved with newer versions **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly just lower costs, existing platforms worked fine but cost more ### 50. Acceptable solution for RoBo installation in VMware environments, sub-par support, high TCO **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Facilities Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2024 **What do you like best about VMware vSAN?** It's an acceptable solution to install in small size, remote-branch VMware environments, easy to implement, decent performance, if the customer already has a need for VMware virtualization so thath it needs some ESXi host anyway, also the economics could work, particularly for small RoBo setups. **What do you dislike about VMware vSAN?** Basically still inferior to other solutions on the market, for example losing a disk in OSA mode equals losing the entire node. ESA mode disk requirement (at least 4 SSDs) is high for small setups. VMware support must definitely improve, documentation, which is lacking information on crucial points, eg. encryption and data compression behaviours. When counting up VMware licenses and hardware cost, the TCO isn't competitive compared to other HCI solutions nor to traditional SAN hardware. **What problems is VMware vSAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Small roBO installations storage. - [View VMware vSAN pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-19+13%3A45%3A02+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ad771c55-f6ee-4c52-a214-d937cb23ef69&secure%5Btoken%5D=869a69e600f040eba6dbe6c15bb65c9fb77620e1b2cbde0f54789099e8a3f2e5&format=llm_user) ## VMware vSAN Integrations - [OpenStack](https://www.g2.com/products/openstack/reviews) - [Veeam Backup for Google Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-backup-for-google-cloud/reviews) - [Veeam Data Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-data-platform/reviews) - [VMware Tanzu Labs](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-tanzu-labs/reviews) ## VMware vSAN Features **Core Functions** - Server Virtualization - Storage Virtualization - Network Virtualization **Performance** - High Availability - Low Latency - High Scalability - Fast Application Deployment **General Functionality** - Dynamic Scaling - High Availability - Data Security - Backup and Recovery **Functionality** - Simplified Management - Monitoring Tool - Cost-Saving **Configuration** - Appliance Independence - Hardware Integration **Security** - Business Continuity - Data Security **Agentic AI - Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions** - Autonomous Task Execution - Adaptive Learning - Decision Making ## Top VMware vSAN Alternatives - [Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)](https://www.g2.com/products/nutanix-cloud-infrastructure-nci/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (291 reviews) - [DataCore SANsymphony](https://www.g2.com/products/datacore-sansymphony/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (28 reviews) - [VxRail](https://www.g2.com/products/vxrail/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (32 reviews)