We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and Rackspace OpenStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"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 that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The solution is stable."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"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 interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"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."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"The line migration is a problem."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8. 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 Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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