We performed a comparison between NetApp HCI [EOL] and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."
"Scalability was another thing I was looking at. The solution, by its very nature, is designed to be expandable and flexible, so you don't have to buy performance you don't need today, but you're also not stuck with something you can't expand."
"The most valuable feature is the software design storage that really provided a faster, agile, easier to scale up and out storage path."
"The NetApp Deployment Engine that comes with it makes the actual deployment and usage very easy. That's our primary focus and it's hyper-converged. That's something that we want to use as well."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"This is a strong product and it works very well, and the processes around it continue to grow and mature."
"The scalability is great, because it can scale independently."
"HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth."
"VxRail has high performance and has great efficiency. There is a single place for us to manage all of our virtual machines. The ability to right-size instead of overcommit VMs is a large benefit."
"What I like the most in terms of features is the fact that the VxRail update can be done in one week. It takes much less time to do a whole server upgrade and an infrastructure update as well."
"One-click upgrade is valuable because upgrading an environment that is considered a traditional one is something that we never do or are never going to complete. It is very time-consuming for my team. With the one-click upgrade, it is much quicker. There are preparation stages, but it takes less time, so we are also saving time in the daily administration."
"The update capability of VxRail is crucial for us."
"The most valuable feature in the VxRail solution is the software that binds the management portal and its ease of use of managing the environment. The guys don't have to worry about getting multiple solutions specialist. You can have one person looking at and managing the whole environment."
"It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together."
"VxRail's technical support is very good."
"VxRail can be used for application modernization."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."
"There have been some drive type of issues where we have to apply a new code level. Storage nodes kick certain drives until they act as though they have failed when really they haven't. You just have to reinsert them, then they go on about their happy way. It's sort of a bug."
"There are some legacy applications which still cannot be migrated. That is why we have to keep two environments: legacy and the new one. We would like to see more compatibility to move stuff."
"The fact that it doesn't have all the data points we need and all the historical data that I would like. I find that a lot of the performance analysis is done through support, where they have something that we don't have. It would be nice just to have all that on-prem."
"I'd like to see some additional graphics capabilities because I'd like to look at some virtual desktop integration for CAD software."
"The deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."
"The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment."
"I would like to see higher level graphics support because we are going to be doing some virtual desktop for our CAD software, and I want to be able to support AutoCAD and Cantillo on remote desktop machines."
"The solution could improve by having more storage performance because in some other solutions you can have a file system that can be mounted at several places at one time."
"While VxRail offers compatibility with AMD processors, its capabilities in this area could benefit from further development."
"Its price could be better."
"When using hybrid nodes, such as VxRail, there should not be compression and deduplication, only in All-Flash nodes."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"The upgrade packages require a lot of bandwidth. This could be reduced for an improved experience."
"We have some issues, but they are possibly out-of-the-box issues. There was a host that was dead on arrival, and there were some file issues on other hosts. We're currently working actively with Dell to resolve all these issues. Once they are resolved, the product should be stable."
"The initial setup was not that easy, it was a medium difficulty level."
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NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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