We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge VRTX and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."The solution is stable."
"It's a good solution when you don't need a lot of IT."
"We now find that the solution is quite stable."
"We were satisfied after we upgraded to a professional next-day on-site support."
"Dell PowerEdge VRTX supports a lot of memory which has allowed us to keep our system size smaller."
"The online UA is very good in comparison to others."
"The security is very good on the solution."
"From a hardware perspective, it's interesting. The selling point of VRTX is that everything is built-in. For a small company that doesn't have a server room or the capabilities of hosting several servers, VRTX has four blades. The equivalent in regular server models would be four servers, which is a minimum of 4U, but it could easily be 8U, and then it would have storage. The storage is included inside the enclosure, and it would require a storage unit. It would also require connectivity, which would be ethernet or another protocol switch. From a software perspective, it's a little bit more integrated. You have an integrated way of managing the whole thing, including storage and networking. It has an internal network that can also be useful. I know for a fact that Dell is almost fazing out the product, and it is not that available anymore because it will just cannibalize their sales. They want to sell the more expensive stuff."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"Dell PowerEdge VRTX can improve by providing support for M2 drives."
"VRTX is a bit simplified to the extent that it is a mainstream type of solution for small businesses. If a company needs a more complex solution or something that is a time saver or has more power or scalability, it is probably not the best solution. However, when a company grows and its needs grow, this type of environment can be definitely migrated towards a lab environment or pre-prod testing, not necessarily production. It can still have a second life for the other types of use."
"We've had general issues related to the solution being difficult."
"The storage can be improved."
"The nodes should be synced with the server so that the solution can be used from the cloud when any or all nodes are down."
"The support must be improved."
"The scalability could be better."
"When we first started with this product, we had some difficulty with it."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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Dell PowerEdge VRTX is ranked 1st in Converged Infrastructure with 16 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. Dell PowerEdge VRTX is rated 8.4, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge VRTX writes "A very good online UI and fit for lower budgets but nodes don't sync with the server". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". Dell PowerEdge VRTX is most compared with HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell VxBlock System, FlexPod XCS, IBM PureSystems and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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