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Product: VMware vSAN
Centralized management and scalability offset by complex troubleshooting needs
Critical Review
Product: VMware vSAN
VSAN Licensing Costs and Latency Variance Raise Operational Challenges
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One of the most positive points of VMware vSAN is its management of storage. As VMware stores all data online servers and because of that businesses do not need physical hardware systems to store data. It saves many issues related to storage and businesses can easily do storage from anywhere through VMware tools. Another excellent feature of VMware vSAN is its scalability. At the start, businesses can setup small storage and with the expansion of business the companies can expand storage by adding more servers according to the business need. Another positive feature of VMware vSAN is its built-in data protection system. Due to any reason one server stops working because of virus or any other reason, the other server automatically starts working which helps businesses to continue their work with no delay.
May 24, 2026
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Licensing is expensive. The latency curve for vSAN has a huge variance after nodes enter destage mode. There is risk of data loss if multiple systems go offline.
March 24, 2026
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