We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes 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 also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the overall integration and just seeing the three different layers which make up the machine software. Altogether, it's something that I would say is much better than any other solution that I have experienced before."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The support team responds quickly."
"We're doing a lot of VMware for IT so this solution is really valuable from a VMH point of view. We're trying to assist our customers mainly with management, because that's what they want. The most important aspects are ease of management, as well as ease of configuration, allowing them to attach additional nodes and resources for the applications."
"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."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"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."
Earn 20 points
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 21st in HCI. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0, while Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Is very resilient and protects our data, but the solution is complex". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes report.
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