We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"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 product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes can support what we call a heterogeneous environment. So you can have VMware workloads, Hyper-V workloads, bare metal Red Hat workloads, Kubernetes workloads all on the same cluster. You're not pigeonholed into either all bare metal or all virtualized. So it supports basically any platform."
"Being able to log on to the GUI to see specific data and usage statistics, executing clones, starting and stopping VMs, etc., is great."
"What makes it valuable is the high-availability. In the education field, when you've got students in classrooms, any loss of service disrupts the lessons to a point that the whole lesson is affected. For part of the business which isn't business-critical, to have a little bit of a hiccup wouldn't be such a big thing, but here, it's the high availability of service that is important."
"The full suite of redundancy gives a nice sense of security for the whole environment."
"Live migration between nodes was quick and simple."
"The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects."
"The initial setup seems to be very straightforward."
"In our experience with StarWind, the support has been by far the most valuable feature."
"UI Options are simple and easy to find."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there. A full-blown cloud foundation has a lot more to it."
"This product is not one hundred percent enterprise-ready, so it is more suitable for SMB."
"The web-managed interface (a separate VM) could be better."
"The truth is that the operation and support offered is good, but we consider that the product's usability could improve, as well as the data resynchronization time after an unexpected closure."
"Not much can be improved, to be honest."
"Perhaps the initial configuration and documentation could be a little clearer and simpler to follow."
"We struggle a little with capacity management with the StarWind Hyperconverged appliance."
"It would be nice to have some kind of GUI interface implemented to give you an overall view of the system's health at a glance."
"In the future, it would be nice to be able to migrate from the Windows vSAN to the Linux vSAN without having to do a full restore from backups."
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Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 20th in HCI while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 65 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, HPE Alletra dHCI, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN.
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