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"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"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."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"The support has been excellent, especially if you compare it to IBM."
"Initial setup is straightforward, as everything is pre-installed."
"The most compelling aspect of VxRail lies in its unwavering guarantee of sustained performance for my systems, regardless of their geographical distribution."
"The implementation was quick, we used a checklist and it took approximately one hour."
"The VxRail is built on two specific platforms that have been in the industry for the last 15 to 20 years: the 1-U socket and the 2-U socket platforms from Dell. They're in their sixteenth generation of those platforms, I believe, so they're very stable."
"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."
"This solution optimizes our clients' resources."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"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."
"The licensing is a bit too costly."
"Dell wants to implement the disaster site in the new year, but they haven't decided yet. I hope we will have the opportunity to sell VxRail with this disaster site. It is not really clear at the moment, but hopefully, we will get some good news from the customers in the new year."
"From a hardware and software perspective, there could be an improvement in the sales cycle, as there is a lot of hoops to go through to get pricing on a solution."
"The solution is okay to scale vertically but a bit difficult to expend horizontally. For example, increasing RAM."
"The full solution is not completely included as a bundle, such as we see with SimpliVity."
"They need to keep upgrading the environment and improving automation so that the solution keeps getting better and better."
"We used an integrator team for the implementation of the solution. The one person who takes care of the maintenance of VxRail, such as upgrading the software. The upgrading takes too long. We have many nodes which takes a long time, they need to improve the speed of the upgrades"
"Sometimes during the upgrade process of VxRail, we experience errors that have nothing to do with reality and I cannot troubleshoot them without calling Dell and bringing in an engineer to figure it out."
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 19th in HCI with 2 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 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.
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