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."We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"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."
"My customers use it for VDI. It has been very usable and very fast to use with VDI. On the VxRail side also, it has been very fast."
"The tool's price is competitive and it is easy to use."
"With VxRail, we can manage the life cycle of a virtual machine."
"You don't have to worry too much about the hardware and you don't have to work on integrating a storage device. We instead have this as an all-in-one solution and everything is available as a box."
"VxRail has improved out organization because we are trying to be a little more proactive and elastic. We are trying to change our conventional approach to development."
"We were able to speed up our gaming software, which was a big plus."
"The pricing is very, very good."
"The manageability for controlling the console is the most valuable feature."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"I would like to have a unified platform where I, for example, can manage my 50 stores from a single portal in VxRail and be able to apply all the updates at once. I want to unify them into a centralized console."
"if we're looking at costs, Nutanix will win because it allows flexibility in the type of hardware you can use."
"Its price could be better."
"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."
"It's not really flexible with different use cases."
"Right now, it's difficult for a non-technical person to participate in using the product. It could be made more consumer-friendly."
"Pricing could be improved."
Dell XC Appliance is ranked 38th in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 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 VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Dell XC Appliance vs. VxRail report.
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