We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance and Vblock [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"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 features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"They require more media visibility."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"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."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
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Dell XC Appliance is ranked 38th in HCI while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Dell XC Appliance is rated 8.0, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". Dell XC Appliance is most compared with , whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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