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.
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"It is extremely stable."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"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 stability continues to get better and better. It's pretty reliable."
"Compared with other products, the IT administrator or IT integrator doesn't take much time to get the tool up and running."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"We like the design and that it meets data storage needs."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar environments."
"The solution is stable and reliable. This is one of the main reasons why we purchased this solution."
"VxRail can be used for application modernization."
"It is very powerful. We find that to be the most valuable aspect. The movement of devices between nodes is very easy."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"This is a great product."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"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."
"I would like to see integration with vCenter if possible."
"The full solution is not completely included as a bundle, such as we see with SimpliVity."
"I would like better integration with VCF from VMware, which is the Cloud Foundation tool set, so we can easily provision servers very quickly."
"The price should come down a little bit. It has become better than it was at the beginning. There was a really big price difference between a hyper-converged infrastructure and the classic servers and storage. The gap is lessening, however, it's still there."
"I can't speak to any missing features or weak aspects of the system just yet. We haven't had a chance to really dig in."
"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."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
"The search feature isn't good."
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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