We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance 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 support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The stability is very nice. We haven't had any issues with the cluster. The cluster is very stable. No problems with slowness. Everything has been stable. It was well-architectured."
"It helps simplify the management of VMware."
"I like the managed updates. They are really nice in VxRail. Everything comes packaged and the updates are much easier than with other solutions that I've had to work with."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the storage is integrated with the VxRail so I don't have to go in between systems when I have to monitor my storage."
"VxRail alleviates the operational constraints within an organization."
"Homogeneity is most valuable. The truth is that having everything in a single cluster helps a lot."
"The update process is very convenient."
"It's a turnkey solution, which is good for customers, because they are buying into stability."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"It would be nice if the update process was shortened and that patching would be simpler."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"There could be better documentation and they should allow everyone to access the simulator."
"The requirements need improvement. Some of the managers of VMs are a little sensitive to where they need to be placed in the environment and what names they need to have. I would like a little more control over that so that it fits into our naming scheme and it fits our organizational structure within vSphere."
"Some of the features of the hyperconverged infrastructure could be integrated with external storage. Right now, for example, if I have surveillance going, I need to purchase very cheap storage. So, an integration between the hyperconverged infrastructure and external storage would be good."
"Supply chain capabilities are certainly hurting us. We're in the process of placing a large order for more VxRail nodes right now."
"The initial setup was not that easy, it was a medium difficulty level."
"My main issue so far is that the installation created a default datacenter name of "Marvin" and it cannot be changed."
Dell XC Appliance is ranked 37th in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. Dell XC Appliance is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Dell XC Appliance is most compared with , whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Dell XC Appliance vs. VxRail report.
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