We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] 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 most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"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's hardware is great."
"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 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."
"I like the scalability and the fact that it reduces your total cost for storage over several years."
"Technical support has been fantastic. We always get answers quickly whenever we call."
"vSAN is integrated into VMware."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"VMware vSAN is an easy to use and easy to manage storage solution. Deploying and upgrading are easy. Technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is you do not have to use additional hardware for storage. The operation of VMware vSAN does not take a lot of effort. If you have VMware technology on your site, then it's easy for the operational support of the system."
"The performance has exceeded our expectations and exceeded our traditional converged infrastructure."
"The most important feature to me, in my role, is cost. In the renewal cycle for storage, it was about a 40 percent saving compared to going to an all-flash array, which is what we first looked at doing. Secondly, performance: we need clinical data access in five seconds and need to do everything we can to retain that metric. Thirdly, I was really pleasantly surprised during the data migration across to vSAN, that it happened almost instantly whereas, in the past, migrating from array to array was an arduous and fraught process."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"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."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"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."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"I would like to see some of the more traditional SAN functions that are out the now. I can list them: being able to Snapshot on the back-end, better de-dupe, and better compression. Those are the major ones."
"We would really like them to look at what Nutanix did for day-one/day-two operations deployment: Bringing in the equipment, getting it deployed, getting it setup, and ease of use of one-click for deploying our 30-node solution. With vSAN we had to go into each one individually and set it up."
"There needs to be an increase in the supported memory and hard disk space, as it is an area where the product currently has certain shortcomings."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"When you upgrade the vSAN, there are some issues like lost data and problems with the log. The log disappears. When you upgrade the solution, you must have several logs, so if you have some problems, you can check the log server to find them."
"In a future release, they could add micro-segmentation or security level features integrated into vSAN."
"VMware vSAN could improve by adding NAS and object storage."
"Some intelligence can be added to the newest version to provide more flexibility between storage tiers."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , 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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