We performed a comparison between SteelFusion and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."High Availability is the best feature of product."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The price was right."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"It has a valuable deduplication feature."
"The solution is stable and reliable. This is one of the main reasons why we purchased this solution."
"You don't have to worry too much about the hardware and you don't have to work on integrating a storage device. We instead have this as an all-in-one solution and everything is available as a box."
"Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks."
"We like the design and that it meets data storage needs."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it allows everything to be integrated into a single model, comprised of hardware and software."
"RecoverPoint give us peace of mind knowing any corruption or server issue can be rectified very quickly, making sure the business impact is minimal."
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
"There is a limitation on the number of nodes."
"The technical support is good but could be better."
"The product could support and have more compliance with other vendors."
"There could be better documentation and they should allow everyone to access the simulator."
"We used an integrator team for the implementation of the solution. The one person who takes care of the maintenance of VxRail, such as upgrading the software. The upgrading takes too long. We have many nodes which takes a long time, they need to improve the speed of the upgrades"
"It still has some maturity to grow. It needs to be more tightly integrated with its own family of products. It has shown that it is open with the other products within the market, through its stack, but it needs to have the proof in the market (with use-cases), and it has to have the scalability with the integration."
"VxRail should try to improve the pricing."
"The SCL database sends out a warning and you have to download the adjacent file from the Dell website. You have to upload it and retest it. We cannot always connect our systems to the internet which means we sometimes miss these important updates."
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SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. SteelFusion is rated 9.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), 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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