We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"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 are its performance, simplicity, and synchronicity with vSphere."
"vSAN is integrated into VMware."
"We have found the solution to be very scalable."
"We don't have to order a storage system, we can just use whatever we have on hand and roll it into our virtualization system."
"The most valuable feature is that it is software-defined storage. Also, being able to do maintenance on the fly is a real benefit: migrating off, updating, and then moving the guest back on to the nodes."
"The ease of use is great."
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"IOPS is comparatively best to run VDI solution."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"This is a great product."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"The documentation could be better."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"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."
"There could be more features with the automatic backup."
"The main problem we had was hardware compatibility, finding the right hardware that was certified."
"Customers who are using Essentials Plus or even Essentials have to pay for technical support. However, they should not have to pay for support."
"I would have liked it to have been more scalable. It's scalable but not as much as, for example, the ScaleIO systems were or the Kaminario"
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in vSAN's ability to debug. When it's not working well, debugging becomes quite challenging. Identifying issues when it's lagging or not functioning properly can be difficult."
"It would be ideal if clients didn't need to monitor the solution on a daily basis."
"The platform's cost affects the business. This particular area needs improvement."
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 19th in HCI with 2 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, HPE Alletra dHCI and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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