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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."
"You don't have to spend much time evaluating the hardware. It can be deployed in a short time. The tool is also easy to upgrade."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is the flexibility of the nodes. Additionally, if there are any critical issues they update us through emails. The issues are taken care of remotely on the system."
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"The most valuable feature is the software design storage that really provided a faster, agile, easier to scale up and out storage path."
"This is a strong product and it works very well, and the processes around it continue to grow and mature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SolidFire interface."
"Simple setup and having the storage and compute right on one deployment is the most valuable aspect of this solution. They're able to get set up and ready to go and start having their DevOp team deploy to that environment."
"Stability is one of the things we absolutely have to have, because if the HCI is down, our assembly lines are down, and that could potentially lead to our customer being down. If our customer is down, that's $10,000 a minute; and any time the assembly line is down, that could potentially lead to overtime. We don't get to charge one and a half times for something we billed just because you happened to build it on overtime. Any technology we bring in, has to be built for what I call "three in the morning." It can't be built for whenever everybody's in the plant, everybody can watch it, and everybody can babysit. It has to be built for three a.m. when you've got a skeletal staff there, and you just have to know that it's just running. As I stand here, right now, I don't have to check my phone, I don't have to check my email. I know it's running. Period"
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"The solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment."
"The most valuable feature, currently, is the density of the system as hardware. I'm able to leverage the density of the product and remove bigger hardware which requires more space, cooling, and power costs, obviously. There are cost savings, obviously."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"The power switch on the hardware is located in a poor location where it can accidentally be pushed. In an update, they should solve this issue so people do not push it accidentally to have their service go down. A possible solution is the switch should be inside."
"The solution doesn't scale."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes must be flexible since it is complex in designing concepts. It needs to improve stability. The product should integrate with the public cloud."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."
"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
"The Dell VxRail solution is based on vSAN Ready Nodes, but the Dell VxRail is fully automated. It would be helpful if this automation feature could be added to the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. For example, we need to install VMware ESXi, and manually expand the cluster."
"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
"HCI has not enabled us to consolidate workloads or break down silos and has not increased application performance. It has also not resulted in more efficient use of compute resources."
"At the moment, I am not looking for new features. Quality of Service (QoS) and capacity efficiency are the two things that I want to resolve in my customer's environment. QoS improves the performance of each tenancy, and with capacity efficiency, the customer can achieve more capacity as compared to the normal capacity."
"In the next version I would like to see bigger GPU types and insurance for including transparency."
"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."
"I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."
"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate to multiple sites."
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Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 12th in HCI with 13 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.4, while NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Scalable solution, easy to install but maintenance costs are considered high". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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