We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes and VMware vSAN 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."For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"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."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"vSAN is scalable for us. If any additional capacity needs to be included, we just add to the host and configure the vSAN cluster."
"The installation is very easy."
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"Storage is expandable with no extra cost."
"Stretched Cluster is one of the big features that we use across multiple data centers."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"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."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"This is a great product."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"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."
"The product can be improved in a couple of ways. One of those would be that they have a lot of hidden features, that are through the CLI, that would be great to have in the GUI, or just be more open about those features. It's something called RVC. It's a tool in the back end. It's a really great tool, but I had to find it through Reddit. So more information on stuff like that would be great. Also, in the user interface, giving us more features and more reporting that we can do from vSphere itself would be helpful."
"vSAN does not have online dedup. When opening the inline dedupe, the performance will be lower than off inline."
"The integration could be improved. I would like to see integration with other platforms."
"The product's complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Customers who are using Essentials Plus or even Essentials have to pay for technical support. However, they should not have to pay for support."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having better integration with other vendors and the storage is limited, I prefer it to the traditional storage."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"There are certain shortcomings in the stability of the product where improvements are required."
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Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 21st in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes vs. VMware vSAN report.
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