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Luis Morillo
Manager infrastructure at FNAC
We did not use any other solution previously.
We used a three-tier architecture that we replaced with this product. It was the end of life and didn't have the capacity we needed to provide to our source.
View full review »We were using the traditional servers and VMware. We moved to VxRail because we wanted availability and 100% uptime. We do not want any downtime in our company. We want everything to be online 24/7.
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VxRail
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about VxRail. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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Daniel Bruce
CTO at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We previously used Cisco UCS and made the switch to Dell after an extensive proof of concept. We felt like it was going to be the best comprehensive solution for us.
View full review »We were not working with pre-configured appliances. We were using servers that we configured. We used VMware and vSAN.
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Jason Weber
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
I have been selling virtualization platforms for around 10 years. Hyper Converged Infrastructure is perfect for general data center work loads and for VDI.
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reviewer2339184
Global IT Systems Manager at a renewables & environment company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We used HPE SimpliVity, and it did not have a very good result, so we changed it for the better. There was a management issue, and it consumed almost 40% of the machine's resources. It is as if you buy a Ferrari and it already takes away 40% of your speed, whereas, with VxRail, you have 100% speed. We are very happy with it.
Our previous environment consisted of HP, Dell, and VxBlock. We switched because HCI is our new environment/ecosystem. There are a lot of supportability improvements, and it is much easier to manage with VxRail.
View full review »We used a terminal server from Microsoft and switched because we had to renew the whole data center and wanted to use the latest technology.
We liked the integrated update, and the people behind Dell technologies made the difference.
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Johan Malan
System administrator at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
We have previously used Hyper-V-based systems, StarWind, and Nutanix. We have mostly done testing of the other solutions and have not fully introduced them. Out of all the solutions we tested, we settled on the VMware-based VxRail.
We switched from the others solutions because the support from Dell VxRail was excellent.
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Sander Verhulst
System Engineer at South Corporate P2P Fiber Customer
We did not use a different solution previously.
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RSI
In my previous work, I used HPE SimpliVity.
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Vasanth_Kumar
Director Of Information Technology at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
I've used Cisco in the past. I find this solution is easier to implement and offers good hardware and software integrations. We've also worked with IBM and HP a very long time ago. Dell has better customer services than all of them.
View full review »We previously used the initial generation of VxRail but experienced some issues. We went with another vendor but faced hardware-level stability issues and so we returned to VxRail.
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Alok Ranjan
Technical Lead at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
We did not have a complete HCI product, but we had storage-defined software, like Datacode and EqualLogic. Now we are replacing Datacode and EqualLogic with this VxRail because we are using it in vCenter.
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FreddyGonzalez
Virtualization Engineer, SME at Dawson Federal
In my previous organization, we were using a regular blade chassis. We were not using HCI solutions. Rather, it was just the normal virtualization environment deployment using fabric switches. We were also using Dell servers, only it was M540s and 840s on a Dell M1000M chassis.
It was different, and HCI is something that I like.
View full review »As resellers, we don't just deal with Dell. We also resell products from HP, Nutanix, and Lenovo, for example.
View full review »We also have a pair of Nutanix clusters and we didn't switch from it. They're running concurrently. They run different workloads. We wanted to make sure that a false in one hyper-converged did not bring down all of our environment. We wanted to make sure that we were not putting all of our eggs in one basket.
Our Nutanix runs some of our core services. Things that can never go down. That is why we have a pair of Nutanix clusters. They're essentially isolated from everything else. They don't rely on stories. I didn't realize they have their own hosts. They are as isolated as they can be from the rest of the environment so that a fault in one environment won't bring down everything.
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Chris-Stanley
IT Manager at Celtic Manor Resort
We switched from converged to HCI for the ease of management and business growth.
View full review »We used VMware before. We switched to the solution because we needed a system with more performance and scalability.
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Mahammad Shafi Shaikh
Senior Manager Information System Administration at Agro Tech Foods Limited
We switched to VxRail because our previous solution was at the end of service life. We had used it for more than six years. We wanted new technology with new scalability. power, technology and easy maintenance.
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reviewer1766676
Director of Technology at a construction company with 201-500 employees
We were originally using VMware and SAN. We switched so that it can be administered and managed in a centralized format.
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reviewer1367655
Deputy Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We have used other solutions in the past like Nutanix and SimpliVity but VxRail definitely has more advantages. Mainly it uses the VMware vSAN technology, and it is ever-evolving. It integrates with a large ecosystem of solutions. When you consider a large enterprise, these organizations require solutions that include security, scalability, and all the network components in place and integrated. VxRail is more capable of handling these complexities than any other product.
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Savera-Menezes
Head of IT Infrastructure at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
We used Nutanix. VxRail is more economical than Nutanix. It's more cost-effective so we prefer it over Nutanix.
We used so far three different solutions. The first was not a recommended solution. It was pushed down our throats to use that particular hardware. As I was involved in that setup, I knew the first time that implementation was on the wrong hardware, against the recommendation of the partner and the implementer. We definitely did not succeed. The second was a failure again, because of not following the recommendation of the implementer or the partner. The third one, lesson learned and we had no objections to that. We got a better recommendation from someone we trusted, so we were successful with our choice.
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Principa0cc5
Principal at Austin Tovey Ltd
It is a logical progression for customers who are on a three-tier architecture to go with VxRail. It reduces the cost of ownership, so you don't need that storage network layer anymore. You're not buying a dedicated piece of hardware for the storage. It reduces latency, because it's bringing the storage closer to the chip, which is always going to be a good thing. Customers like lower latency and higher IOPS.
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reviewer1852092
SE Infrastructure at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We used a different open-source product but it was not easy to manage which is why we switched.
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Rodney Barnhardt
Server\Storage Administrator at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry
No, we did not have any previous HCI installations.
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reviewer718026
Sun and IBM PSeries HW - Unix Support Enginner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have previously used Nutanix and SimpliVity. The support was not very good. VxRail could be viewed as lower grade and not a top seller compared to others, but if you have an issue with anything, such as the control or engines and it needs replacing, VxRail is better.
Additionally, I have used PowerScale and Isilon.
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Adeel Akhtar
Team Lead IT Infrastructure & Datacenter at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use two solutions: Vxrail with a hypervisor on VMware; and HyperGrid, with a hypervisor on Microsoft Windows, 2016. Both solutions are different and have separate pros and cons.
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reviewer1818243
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I have used other solutions, such as Nutanix.
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reviewer1253394
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
VxRail is comparable to vSAN, which is the same product but more integrated.
Nutanix offers more services, and it can behave as object storage, file server storage, or Sun storage, whereas VxRail is more of a virtualization solution. Also, Nutanix can work independently of VMware. That's an advantage for some customers because VMware is costly, so it increases your budget if you go with VMware and VCF. However, I can't say which is better for HCI. If something works with VMware, it works on VxRail. It's in the scope of VMware, so I don't see any restrictions.
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LeadServ9aa9
Lead Service Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We had legacy ESX infrastructure previously. It really came down to consolidating our data center, which is what drove our solution switch.
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reviewer2339115
Ingeniero compare at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This is the first solution of this type that we've used.
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Freddy Vergara
Director of Maritime Geoinformation at ARMADA DEL ECUADOR
Before switching to VxRail, we had a very common solution that utilized Blade servers. We switched because we wanted something more elastic and scalable.
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Paulo Henrique Cruz Da Silva
Arquiteto de infraestrutura at Raizen
We previously used an older version of the solution. We switched so that we could change the load solution.
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reviewer1337028
Network Admin at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not previously use a hyper-converged solution. We had a Cisco UCS and we needed to update it. We looked at HyperFlex and at VxRail. We're actually a big Cisco and a big Dell shop, however, on the server-side, we're more of a Dell shop and I liked the step updating. That's pretty much why we went with that.
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Engineer0221
Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees
Before VxRail we used the VNX system, which is old technology with a lot more discs. We were looking to consolidate space. We're off-site, so we have a couple of racks and we were running out of space. We needed something that would compact everything, so we started looking around. We looked at XtremIO. Then we looked into using VMware, and they have this solution that integrates with the storage, VxRail, which is VMware and vSAN. We decided to try it out. We took a look and figured we already use the product, we already have a million things with Dell EMC so we thought it would be easier just to keep going with Dell EMC. The integration purchase went smoothly. We negotiated a reasonable price, and then after that, we set it up and its been going for the last two and a half years without any issues.
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cto267069
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I also have experience with Nutanix. I know all of these kinds of hyper-converged systems.
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reviewer1029573
IT Technical Consultant at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have worked a lot on VxRail. I have also worked on Nutanix, however, not as much as I've worked on VxRail.
Nutanix performance is pretty good and they have something called a CVM, or controller VM. VxRail, however, is based on hardware connections. That's the major difference between the two. That is why the high ops of VxRail is better as compared to Nutanix. Nutanix is simply a different point of VL.
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reviewer1724973
Station Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In addition to this hyperconverged solution, we have implemented CI Converged solutions, which is a Dell EMC product. However, we recommend the HCI solution for most companies.
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SystemAdbf21
System Administrator at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We switched because the previous solution was seven years old. We could no longer get support on it.
This is a better SAN solution than the one that we used to use.
View full review »I used to use traditional infrastructure (blade servers and SAN storage). I switched for scalability and for the fast-growing data center that I have.
View full review »We previously used traditional storage and compute. We switched because we needed a single pane of glass for administration.
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VxRail
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about VxRail. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.