We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"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."
"It makes for easier deployments through automation and improved accessibility."
"The cover points feature in VxRail is remarkable. It's unique. It has an intervention failover system as well as an automatic failover system, reaching clusters existing in VxRail. This makes all files act as a single file with a large and huge resource, and, of course, with customized administration, configuration, and resources. It provides automatic failover for redundancy and data recovery."
"We have seen ROI using this solution. It has simplified the work of the staff that we have which allows us to do more work with the same number of people, without having to incrementally grow the staff. The reliability of the product has been exceptional."
"For me, VxRail's most valuable feature is its life-cycle management."
"One beneficial feature is that the solution can handle complex environments."
"Updating the product has been very easy."
"There is no in-depth config involved nor third-party needed, saving us time and money."
"It's very easy to upgrade."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"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."
"If VxRail could also offer file services in addition to virtualization, that would be nice because sometimes people want to complement their environment with file services, and you don't have that in VxRail."
"The configurations of VxRail can be difficult. However, it has improved in the newer version. From version 6 to 7, there has been a lot of changes."
"The upgrade packages require a lot of bandwidth. This could be reduced for an improved experience."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
"I can't speak to any missing features or weak aspects of the system just yet. We haven't had a chance to really dig in."
"The search feature isn't good."
"Next release, we would like to see online applications."
"In the version that I was working with, the integrations are in need of improvement."
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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