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."Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"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 integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"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 solution is scalable."
"The program is stable."
"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 of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"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."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"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."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"The installation is complex."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"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 20th 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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