We compared VxRail and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
VxRail is praised for its excellent performance, support, pricing structure, and positive ROI, while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes are valued for their high performance, scalability, and efficient storage management. Users highlight VxRail's flexibility and customer service, while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes receive praise for their ease of use and data protection. Suggestions for improvement include enhancing scalability and compatibility for VxRail and improving performance optimization and installation process for Dell vSAN Ready Nodes.
Features: The valuable features of VxRail include excellent performance, seamless integration with existing systems, and highly scalable and flexible infrastructure solution. On the other hand, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes offer high performance, scalability, ease of use, efficient storage management, reliable data protection, and seamless integration with existing infrastructure. Users also appreciate the nodes' ability to handle demanding workloads, expand storage capacity as needed, and effortlessly fit into their existing IT environment.
Pricing and ROI: According to user experiences, VxRail offers reasonable setup costs and flexible licensing options. Users have reported that Dell vSAN Ready Nodes also have reasonable setup costs and a straightforward setup process. Both products are praised for their easily obtained and managed licensing., The VxRail product offers increased efficiency, improved performance, lower total cost of ownership, scalability, ease of use, and reliability. On the other hand, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes provide improved data storage and management capabilities, seamless integration, cost-effectiveness, and user-friendly features.
Room for Improvement: Some areas for improvement in VxRail include scalability, flexibility, compatibility, setup process, monitoring/reporting capabilities, customer support, and troubleshooting documentation. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could benefit from enhancements in performance optimization, compatibility, storage options, installation/configuration process, reliability, and efficiency.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews suggest that there are varying timeframes for deployment, setup, and implementation phases for both VxRail and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. Some users spent three months on deployment and an additional week on setup for both, while others required only a week for both., Customers have expressed satisfaction with the customer service for both VxRail and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. However, VxRail is praised for its helpfulness and responsiveness, while Dell is commended for its prompt and efficient assistance.
The summary above is based on 34 interviews we conducted recently with VxRail and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"The product is useful for DR and other things."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is the flexibility of the nodes. Additionally, if there are any critical issues they update us through emails. The issues are taken care of remotely on the system."
"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."
"You don't have to spend much time evaluating the hardware. It can be deployed in a short time. The tool is also easy to upgrade."
"It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together."
"It helps simplify the management of VMware."
"We are very happy with the purchase, and it works well. It is fast. We went with the full-flash version, meaning that we have SSDs. So, we can build a Windows virtual machine in two minutes. We were surprised when we first tried to do that."
"Updating the product has been very easy."
"VxRail's technical support is very good."
"Being able to perform upgrades and check the system through the VxRail Manager has been very helpful."
"It helps our servers and it is very efficient."
"We enjoy the ease of management since all of the resources are located on one box — one single point of support."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. The price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could be lowered."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"Integration could be improved."
"Next release, we would like to see online applications."
"The cost is quite high. It's a very expensive solution to run."
"When it comes to maintenance, it takes 16 hours to upgrade a 12 node VxRail plus. This could be improved in the system."
"The product has high pricing. This particular area needs improvement."
"They should have better compatibility with other processors, such as AMD processors."
"The licensing costs are too expensive. They should work on their pricing model."
"The full solution is not completely included as a bundle, such as we see with SimpliVity."
Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 12th in HCI with 14 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and 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 vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. VxRail report.
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