We performed a comparison between Rackspace OpenStack and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"The solution is stable."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The most valuable feature in the VxRail solution is the software that binds the management portal and its ease of use of managing the environment. The guys don't have to worry about getting multiple solutions specialist. You can have one person looking at and managing the whole environment."
"VxRail can be used for application modernization."
"I can roll out the system in thirty minutes and the customer can work with it."
"It's a turnkey solution, which is good for customers, because they are buying into stability."
"It has a valuable deduplication feature."
"For me, the most valuable feature is in relation to the software updates."
"Compared with other products, the IT administrator or IT integrator doesn't take much time to get the tool up and running."
"VxRail performs well in the VDI environment."
"It should have a single dashboard for cloud management and on-premises systems"
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"The line migration is a problem."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"The version upgrade process should be simplified."
"There could be better documentation and they should allow everyone to access the simulator."
"I would prefer it if each cell had a tool geared toward billing clients."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"When using hybrid nodes, such as VxRail, there should not be compression and deduplication, only in All-Flash nodes."
"They're getting better with their one-click upgrade. The success factor is now between 85% to 87% with the latest release. They should just continuously improve on that one-click factor and make it more seamless."
"VxRail is a closed system with an out-of-the -box solution approach, it has basic 3 layers, Hardware, Network, Storage, Software, (Virtualizing) Applications. Release notes and improvement tips, patches from the back office, the business units, should be frequent and up to the patches which are coming from different vendors as far as the operating system application and also the technology itself is concerned."
Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 10 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. Rackspace OpenStack is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series.
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