We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and IBM VersaStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"They offer top-tier support."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The solution has high IOPS and the I/O is important because it gives us more transactions per second."
"Replication and DR implementation became faster."
"The combination of Cisco's architecture and IBM's flash technology. Cisco provides FI technology which provides one simple architecture. IBM's flash technology is fast."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"Raw data mapping for storage should be a given option."
"The solution should improve deduplication to get a lot of savings."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while IBM VersaStack is ranked 8th in Converged Infrastructure with 3 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while IBM VersaStack is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM VersaStack writes "A very high IOPS that gives more I/O transactions per second". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas IBM VersaStack is most compared with Dell VxBlock System.
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