VxRail Scalability
Scalability isn't a major concern for us because we initially overprovisioned the systems, giving them more capacity than we initially needed to accommodate potential growth. We're currently evaluating whether to replace the entire system or expand it. Both options are still being considered. There's room for growth, but we haven't had to tap into it yet.
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Luis Morillo
Manager infrastructure at FNAC
It allows you to do whatever you want. You can scale to a very good level.
We've now implemented it across our store network. We'll have 1800 stores on the VxRail by the end of October.
We have more capacity than we need. The reason we selected the product is that it is scalable. We can add additional components when needed. We haven't had to, however, it's available if we need to.
At this point, we've adopted the solution 100% across our organization.
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It is scalable. Currently, we have almost 40 VMs on VxRail.
Only the IT admin works with VxRail. Only the IT admin can monitor and configure VxRail.
View full review »VxRail is very scalable. It can scale out to 64 hosts.
In our company, we have eight to ten people who are using this solution.
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Jason Weber
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The scalability of the solution is very impressive, actually. You can scale a very large environment with ease. It's not trouble at all.
On the converse of that, it doesn't work so well for very small environments. This is mostly for if you've got, for example, four hosts already. It's not for small environments. You need to really have 100 to 200 VMs to really take advantage of it.
As a reseller, I'll typically check in with clients after a few months to see how things are going and to see if they need a new node or anything of that nature. Typically, they are looking to scale a bit more.
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reviewer2339184
Global IT Systems Manager at a renewables & environment company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very agile.
View full review »It is scalable. Currently, we have 12 people who are working with this solution, but there will be more.
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Slava Mislivets
Sr. Infrastructure Engineer at CSL Behring
The scalability is 10 out of 10. I can add or remove hosts at any time. I have no problem with that.
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KareemEzzat
Cyber Security Analyst at Petrotrade
We haven't tested the scalability and therefore I cannot comment on its capabilities.
Currently, we have more than 1,000 users on the solution. They are basically working with the database.
Next year, we have plans to increase usage. e plan on getting more customers and therefore will need to bill for more storage.
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Johan Malan
System administrator at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
I have found VxRail highly scalable. You are able to add more nodes and increase the hardware to scale. It is flexible.
We have thousands of people using the solution. However, it is difficult to know for sure since many different business units use it.
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Sander Verhulst
System Engineer at South Corporate P2P Fiber Customer
The product is very scalable.
View full review »VxRail is scalable. There have been few problems with VxRail in general. We've had some tickets, but it's generally okay.
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Letarik Terefe
IT Project Management /Research & Development Team Leader at Ethiopian Roads Administration
The product has good scalability. We can connect the required nodes automatically. Deploying VxRail is relatively cost-effective in increasing the number of users. We currently have a low demand for increased user capacity. However, if such demand arises, the process would be straightforward. Adding additional nodes is intuitive and seamless. Connect the new nodes, and the system will automatically update within the centralized management model.
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reviewer2340924
RSI
They are scalable. They are made for it.
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Vasanth_Kumar
Director Of Information Technology at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is pretty scalable. There are a lot of items that keep adding onto the computing power and storage. It's not like other platforms where you have to plan far ahead if you plan to scale.
View full review »I rate the tool's scalability a ten out of ten.
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KareemEzzat
Cyber Security Analyst at Petrotrade
It is a scalable solution. It handles big data of our database, about three or four million customer services.
View full review »This is a scalable solution.
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reviewer1165599
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is scalable, it has the ability to scale up but if you go and you add clusters it can get a bit difficult. If you are adding everything new, you only add it, and then it becomes a part of a cluster, but if you started off with a small four-cluster and then you have a 12-node cluster then you want to move those machines, it can take some work.
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Alok Ranjan
Technical Lead at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
VxRail is especially useful for a manufacturing site. I can't really know many end users are there, but I know that they are participating in the manufacturing process. This is a pharma company and for us, VxRail is critical in our process.
So far, looking at its specifications, it looks good. It's scalable.
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Rony Chamoun
Team Lead for Data center at BMB
The solution is scalable.
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reviewer2318352
Product owner at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
VxRail's impressive scalability lies in its ability to seamlessly accommodate increasing workloads by effortlessly adding additional servers.
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FreddyGonzalez
Virtualization Engineer, SME at Dawson Federal
VxRail is very easy to scale. It is simple to add nodes, scale-out, or scale-up. We have more than 2,000 users. There are many different people in people in many different departments, going from regular day to day administration, helpdesk, cybersecurity operations, forensics, virtualization administrators, VDI administrators, and so forth.
View full review »We haven't had any issues with scalability so far. It should be pretty easy for a company to expand it out if they need to. We haven't received any feedback to make us assume otherwise. You can scale up on many things, including processors, discs, and nodes.
We don't sell to many large companies. typically we deal with small and medium-sized organizations.
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reviewer1507302
Sr Solution Architect - Enterprise Storage and Virtualization at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Scalability is a misunderstood notion in the hyper-converged environment. Very often, people misunderstand what and how things are being scaled within a hyper-converged environment, and this is applicable to every solution out there. So, from a scalability point of view, in terms of the technology itself, it is fairly easy, but in terms of dollars and what it means, very often, people are a little bit surprised about it. If you want to upgrade your storage, you don't necessarily upgrade just one hard drive. If you're in all-flash storage, every node has to be upgraded. There are rules around disk groups and things of that nature, so it becomes a bit of a challenge, and sometimes, it is at a price that customers do not expect. The pricing and how things are evolving over a period of time are very often misunderstood by customers.
View full review »We have not needed to scale up. It is less than six months old, so we have not needed to scale it, however, I have scaled other VSN clusters and it was easy.
My department is kind of interesting. We are the central IT provider for the university, we provide IT services for other IT departments. I can't actually answer how many people are on the solution at any given time. We're essentially an MSP for on campus, but that's sort of our role. Therefore, I am so far removed from what the end-user is doing with it.
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Chris-Stanley
IT Manager at Celtic Manor Resort
Before we had VxRail, we had scalability issues. After installing VxRail, we did not experience issues.
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Matthias Reuter
Team leader operations connectivity at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is scalable. Scalability is given by the fact that we can simply add more servers.
View full review »The tool is scalable and I would rate it a nine out of ten.
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Mahammad Shafi Shaikh
Senior Manager Information System Administration at Agro Tech Foods Limited
The solution is scalable.
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reviewer1766676
Director of Technology at a construction company with 201-500 employees
It is very scalable. You can scale compute or storage or both. I am looking to expand my New York cluster this quarter.
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Yudi Aritonang
Co-Founder and CEO at PT Eugenea Kreasi Utama
VxRail is easy to scale out. That said, from 2017 until now we're using just three nodes. We haven't upgraded our VxRail to scale. Therefore, we haven't personally scaled.
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reviewer1367655
Deputy Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is an easily scalable product. It is a perfect fit for use in small and medium businesses. For the larger enterprise, you can use it, but again it depends on the use case. If you have a specific use case that fuels for VxRail, definitely it can be used.
View full review »Scalability-wise, VMware or Dell says the solution can go up to 64 nodes in a single cluster. We have gone to almost 48 to 50 server nodes, and it is stable. Around 30 customers are using the solution.
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Savera-Menezes
Head of IT Infrastructure at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
This solution is scalable. We purchased two additional units the following year.
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Ghulam Mustafa
BT Area Champion/Trainer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is very good for small and medium-sized organizations.
The product can scale. When we go for an upgrade, all the upgraded software is combined in a one-bundle unit.
We've just extended our solution. We have four-node clusters, and recently we acquired more resources. We just extended this cluster to eight nodes. We are waiting for the delivery of the equipment. We already replaced some of it.
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reviewer1754808
Account Executive at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
If you want to scale VxRail, you buy another node and add it to the cluster. That process is straightforward. It will re-image the new node, give it the same firmware, and provide the same orchestration as the rest of the node. Scalability is probably one of the biggest reasons people choose VxRail.
View full review »The scalability of VxRail is very good because they told me that it scales up to 64 nodes, but at this time we haven't had the need for that kind of scale. We can scale it on disks but we don't have to scale it. We don't have a node. It is cheaper to scale it up with disks while we need some space. We are okay with the CPU and all of that, so the disk solutions are very nice. Its scaling is very nice because we can scale it up with only disks. When we need to scale a computer or something, we need to buy another node if we run out of the disks.
Our organization has about 100 people.
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Ravindran Seeni
Head of IT at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable. When you are buying it, you have to buy a minimum of three nodes. After that, if you want to add more nodes, you can buy can buy them. You can also add-on additional compute and storage.
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Tin Htut Soe
Information Technology Infrastructure Manager at Pun Hlaing Hospital
The solution is quite efficient for scaling horizontal but will a bit difficult to expand vertical where on the certified engineer can authorized. For example, increasing RAM and storage.
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Rajith Attupurath
Senior Network & System Administrator at UOWD
The scalability was good but we didn't make use of it. It's scalable from an architecture point of view but we never took advantage of that functionality.
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Principa0cc5
Principal at Austin Tovey Ltd
I'm not at the stage yet where I need to expand with my customers, but it is easy to add on to.
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Eric Meiser
Senior Consultant at SoftEd Systems
I can start with two systems for a robot, or I can start with a bigger system that has twelve or more nodes, and I can add the customer's workload.
We had a big project in Germany that started with one cluster. It expanded over a year and a half to a fourteen cluster system.
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Müfit Metin
Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
VxRail is a scalable product. Of course, it depends on the business and the markets, but the scalability is usually excellent.
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Deena Khattab
MIS Manager at Misr Glass Manufacturing
It is very easy to add new servers, the scalability is very easy.
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reviewer1308753
Data Center Team Lead at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
VxRail is easy to scale, but the number of nodes is limited. This is not the same with other solutions like Nutanix. VxRail has a limit for a certain number of nodes within the cluster and if you need more than that then you have to create another cluster. It is an issue but at the same time, it is not an issue. It is kind of just a configuration difference.
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Rodney Barnhardt
Server\Storage Administrator at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry
We have not had a reason to scale or add to the initially purchased appliance.
View full review »The solution is scalable.
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Reinhard Weber
Senior System Engineer at Unilab Systemhaus GmbH
The scalability is great. You can scale within the system easily. You just put in more disks and more memory. Even if you stop with one CPU, you can add a second one or you can go and just add another when customers come and say, "Okay we need more." We just buy another node and put it in. Within, let's say, 20 minutes, the node is within the cluster. It's quick and easy.
For us, we used to earn our money with installing and updating, etc., however, the customer's doing it all by himself now, even if he gets a new server or cluster, it's one each click.
Since we do not use the VxRail internally and we are just sending it to our customers, we have a technical team of about 10 people that are working in the service. Within this, there are three people who are working with VxRail.
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DanRogers
Solutions Architect
The scalability is great. Thankfully, our data needs are in the 200 gigabyte range when we go out onsite, so we're not overloading it. We just have the single rail that has four hosts on it.
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reviewer1710336
Pre sales Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It's scalable. You can increase a cluster without downtime for the customer. You can add more discs and more drives for the clients. The only thing that could be improved is that when I designed the appliance with one processor, the engineers of the EMC told me that if a client has one processor and you want to upgrade the appliance with a second processor, you can do it without a factory reset of the appliance. So, if the client has an appliance cluster or nodes cluster with one processor for each appliance, and the customer wants to upgrade with a second processor for each appliance, there is another viable option because you have to reset all the clusters and delete all the data. It would be better if there was a way to make a second processor upgrade without a factory reset.
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reviewer718026
Sun and IBM PSeries HW - Unix Support Enginner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The scalability of VxRail is very good.
We have four customers using this solution.
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reviewer1420599
Director of Information & Technology Services at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
The solution is scalable.
We have 100 users using this solution in my organization.
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Ahmed Gamil
PreSales Manager at UC-Solutions
The solution has scaled well for us. When you need to scale up all you need to have is additional nodes to insert, power them on, pre-configure, and it is in production.
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Adeel Akhtar
Team Lead IT Infrastructure & Datacenter at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We haven't had problems with bugs, We recently updated VxRail and we haven't had any problems.
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reviewer1818243
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
VxRail ability to expand was good, I don't remember what it maxes out at but the one deployment that I was working on and assisting with is one where they were running out of storage too quickly. However, this does not matter if it's HCI or if it's a traditional storage array that you're connecting via iSCSI or Fiber Channel or ports. Running out of storage is a lack of knowledge of utilizing the tools, such as vRealize or Turbonomic, and it is important to do capacity planning. When comparing VxRail to Nutanix, Nutanix had similar scalability capabilities.
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Lubabalo Ntoni
Data Centre Systems Engineer at Dube TradePort
VxRail is vSAN, so we only need to buy a node when we need to scale, which is not a problem.
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reviewer1253394
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
VxRail is not an easy tool for selling big projects or a lot of services.
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reviewer1022718
Sales Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
VxRail is very scalable. This is one of the advantages of hyperconverged infrastructure: Whenever you need to scale, all you have to do is add a node. We use this product on a daily basis.
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Ahmed_Alaiady
ICT Business Solution Architect at Cloud Technology
The solution is flexible, scalable and easily integrated. We can add to it at any time and it'll give extra performance and extra CPU.
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Mina Magdy
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Equinox International
Currently, more than 500 users are using VxRail in our company. It's capable of delivering for all types of workloads. Technically, it depends on the hyper-converged instructions. This means that you have 100% assurance of its compatibility with all of its components. It should also carry all types of workload dispersing, that is, from the normal traditional virtual machines to high-performance computing, such as HEP workload, heavy database, artificial intelligence, and business analytics.
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LeadServ9aa9
Lead Service Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
It is very easy to scale out.
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reviewer2339115
Ingeniero compare at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
In our infrastructure, we started with five nodes. We then increased them to six, and then we grew them to seven. It is not “plug and play” as they say. It took Dell’s technician almost a week to add the node so it is not that simple.
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Paulo Henrique Cruz Da Silva
Arquiteto de infraestrutura at Raizen
We plan to scale the solution to 3,000 users and therefore we have a good idea of how much it can scale for us. We are pretty happy with it's potential to scale.
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reviewer960945
Co Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
VxRail has great scalability.
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reviewer1425435
Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We may need more nodes next year. At the present time, the solution is fine as we support only 200 users. However, I will need to have these capabilities for approximately 1,500 users, although I cannot specify the exact number.
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reviewer1570641
Data Centre and HCI Solutions Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is easy to scale, but typically, it involves adding more nodes. So, there is an investment from the customer side. They have to have the budget for it, and then scalability is not an issue.
We are focused on all segments. Some of our customers start off with something as small as a three-node cluster, and we also have large enterprise customers who start off with 10 or 12 nodes.
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reviewer1337028
Network Admin at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
As far as the documentation goes, it seems to be scalable. I haven't had to do any scaling, however, the documentation certainly makes it seem like it's just a matter of adding another node and everything will just work fine.
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Engineer0221
Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability is pretty good. Currently, we are looking at expanding. We're down to 50 terabytes and we plan on bringing on a lot more storage. We're speaking to Dell EMC. We need to buy another add-on and we can expand, it won't take on a lot more space. With a few more drives it will be huge. It's pretty scalable; it's going to grow with no problem.
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Edgar Orare
Senior Systems Engineer at Dimension Data
I have found VxRail software can scale very well.
We have approximately 100 users using this solution. We are planning to increase our usage.
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cto267069
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The product can scale very well. It's a notable aspect of the solution itself. If the company needs to expand, it can do so.
More than 200 customers are running on that solution.
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reviewer1029573
IT Technical Consultant at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability of the solution is great. If an organization needs to expand out the service they can do so quite easily.
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Riad SAYAH
Ingénieur Avant vente at CFAO Technologies
VxRail is scalable. If you want to add more computer storage, you only need to add a remote.
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EMANUEL CORDEIRO
IT Manager at CIALNE
We have approximately 500 people who use this product and we have not tried to scale it.
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Managing56d7
Managing Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's a lot more scalable than it was. With the combination of the stack, I just recently went to training two weeks ago. For somebody who had been certified in VMware, then sort of stopped using it, I'm back as a proponent of using the solutions across the hybrid cloud and within the data center consolidation and hybrid cloud solutions.
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Enterpri68a5
Enterprise Architect at Unisys
We haven't really gone beyond what we started off with: three nodes. However, we're looking at other clients where we will be doing upwards of four to 15 nodes.
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reviewer1295481
Director at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
This is a scalable solution but this comes at a cost.
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UnitManae381
Unit Manager & Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is excellent.
The scalability is built into the whole design of the solution and you don't have to worry about replacing the whole entire environment. You can scale up or scale down depending on what your requirements are for that time in your business.
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Thiago Souza
Solutions Architect at Net Place
It is quite easy to scale. You just need to add more nodes.
Our clients are both medium and large companies. Most of our clients have a virtual environment, and they use VMware as a traditional infrastructure and add VxRail to it. As the company grows, the usage of this solution will also grow.
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Ashraf Ali
Senior Consultant at global brands
I have scaled it many times, and its scalability is very good. You can scale out and scale up as much as you need, which is a great thing.
It is suitable for small, medium, and large businesses. We have almost 500 users.
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reviewer1067061
Information Technology Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
As VxRail is constantly updating, it makes it really easy to scale-out and scale-up.
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Paulo Xavier
Sales Manager at LTA-RH Informatica
You are able to scale up to 64 nodes at a maximum. It does scale to that size. I don't know of any client that would need 64. We have a few clients that have an installation of 16 to 24 nodes and that's rather sizable. Chances are you wouldn't have to scale quite as large as 64. Therefore, it would be a rare instance in which it wouldn't scale enough for a company.
All of our clients are quite large and government-related.
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Suraj Godar
Sn. Eng Infrastructure Solution at UBG
The solution is scalable.
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Igor Zheltukhin
Lead Engineer at IBS Platformix
VxRail has no concerns with scalability.
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reviewer1724973
Station Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
VxRail is scalable. You can add up to 64 nodes in a single cluster. Anytime you need to scale up or scale out, you can add hard disks on the node or you can add the node itself to the cluster. The scale depends on the customer's requirements. They put out a bid proposal and based on that, we propose the solution they need. It's VxRail most of the time. We first visit their site and look at the solutions in their existing environment. Then based on that, we provide the best solution, which is usually VxRail.
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reviewer1484772
MAM Support Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is scalable. We have more than 1000 users using the solution.
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reviewer1234917
AVP-Datacenter Practice at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
VxRail's scalability is a bit of a challenge.
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Jinoy P S
Solution Expert at Frontier Business systems
The scalability is limited to a single cluster with 64 nodes.
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Shams K
Vmware Administrator at Intertech
This solution is scalable.
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reviewer746781
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Scalability is perfect.
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Ahmet Gul
Solution Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The scalability could be improved because of the lack of other vendor support.
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SystemAdbf21
System Administrator at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have plenty of scalability and can add more nodes, if needed.
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reviewer1682655
Head of Professional Solutions at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
VxRail is scalable.
View full review »No issues.
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reviewer1738062
Technical manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is scalable.
View full review »No issues with scalability.
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reviewer1346064
Technical Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We have around 30 daily users who use VxRail.
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Learn what your peers think about VxRail. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.