We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes can support what we call a heterogeneous environment. So you can have VMware workloads, Hyper-V workloads, bare metal Red Hat workloads, Kubernetes workloads all on the same cluster. You're not pigeonholed into either all bare metal or all virtualized. So it supports basically any platform."
"This product has given us clear visibility into what we need technology-wise to grow."
"The pricing is very, very good."
"The most valuable feature is its high performance."
"Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks."
"It is the most valuable Software Defined Storage ever to manage all storage workloads, and also offers high availability."
"The technical support from Dell was very good."
"The scalability of VxRail is very good."
"VxRail has improved our organization by providing our admin team with an easy-to-use interface."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there. A full-blown cloud foundation has a lot more to it."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"I would like to see Dell take a crack at simplifying the process of moving from a node to a cluster and assembling everything into the appliance. It would be great if Dell could provide a pathway where a customer could actually install it without the certifications. Of course, I can't say how you would dumb down something so complex."
"I would love to see license migration from one host to another."
"The only issue which is every now and again is that when you log in it will tell you that there's an issue with VxRail when there actually isn't. All that's required is a refresh or reload. The solution itself works but you may get some bad reports every now and again. Probably once every couple of months; there is no effect to the solution's capabilities."
"VxRail could improve by having domain protection."
"When using hybrid nodes, such as VxRail, there should not be compression and deduplication, only in All-Flash nodes."
"The support protocols have changed after Broadcom acquired VMware."
"Troubleshooting can be a little more difficult than legacy systems."
"I would like it to tier to the cloud effectively, making sure that cold data can be pushed out to some sort of Bitbucket."
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 20th in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with HPE Alletra dHCI, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes vs. VxRail report.
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