VMware vSAN comparisons
VMware vSAN is compared head-to-head with Ceph, NetApp ONTAP Select and MinIO AIStor and more: 7 head-to-heads in Software-Defined Storage Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.
VMware vSAN head-to-head
- VMware vSAN vs Ceph
- VMware vSAN vs NetApp ONTAP Select
- VMware vSAN vs MinIO AIStor
- VMware vSAN vs Qumulo Core
- VMware vSAN vs VAST Data Platform
- VMware vSAN vs IBM Storage Scale
- VMware vSAN vs SUSE Enterprise Storage
VMware vSAN vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Deployment model | Storage protocols | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | VMware vSAN | Hybrid | Block; NFSv3; NFSv4.1; SMB; S3-compatible object storage | 8.3 | ||
| 1 | Ceph | Yes | Free | 9.4 | ||
| 2 | NetApp ONTAP Select | No | On-premises | NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, NVMe over TCP, S3 | 9.2 | |
| 3 | MinIO AIStor | Yes | 9.0 | |||
| 4 | Qumulo Core | No | Hybrid | NFS, SMB, S3, REST, FTP, FTPS | 8.7 | |
| 5 | VAST Data Platform | 8.6 | ||||
| 6 | IBM Storage Scale | Hybrid | 8.5 | |||
| 7 | SUSE Enterprise Storage | Object Gateway, RADOS Block Device, CephFS, librados | 8.4 |
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