We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance 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."Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"It helps simplify the management of VMware."
"You don't need to think about compatibility of components."
"Cost-effective and easy to install."
"When we have a resource contention, we can easily increase the capacity."
"For me, VxRail's most valuable feature is its life-cycle management."
"It makes for easier deployments through automation and improved accessibility."
"The technical support from Dell was very good."
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"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."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"if we're looking at costs, Nutanix will win because it allows flexibility in the type of hardware you can use."
"In the next release, I would like to see our graphical user interface allow us to manage VxRail clusters and everything on a single pane of glass where I can monitor and shut down the server, similar to a VxRail manager."
"The configurations of VxRail can be difficult. However, it has improved in the newer version. From version 6 to 7, there has been a lot of changes."
"The solution should facilitate the separate expansion of computing and storage."
"Troubleshooting can be a little more difficult than legacy systems."
"The full solution is not completely included as a bundle, such as we see with SimpliVity."
"Pricing could be improved."
"We'd like to see more automation capabilities in the future."
Dell XC Appliance is ranked 38th in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. Dell XC Appliance is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Dell XC Appliance is most compared with , whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Dell XC Appliance vs. VxRail report.
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