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Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes vs StorMagic SvSAN comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes
Ranking in HCI
26th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
StorMagic SvSAN
Ranking in HCI
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Storage (SDS) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the HCI category, the mindshare of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StorMagic SvSAN is 2.1%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Al Vasek - PeerSpot reviewer
Ease of acquisition, simple deployment, and priced well
The support from Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is okay. It could be better, they have to work on their approach. The approach they have I call "pass the baton". Every manufacturer does this, such as Cisco, Dell, and Microsoft. You call in, receive a call handler, and give them your problem. The first person you talk to can never fix your problem. They just collect information. There's probably a 5 percent chance that they could fix your problem. Then they pass it off to the next person, there is a lot of passing. That's why I call it "pass the baton". The company I work for the maintenance services is at 98 percent, we receive over 50,000 incidents a month, for those customers who have support through Dell, Cisco, or someone else, 98 percent of our incidents or ticket requests get resolved by your first point of contact. We try to take out that frustration. Knowing that it's possible to fix that model. I don't think it saves them much money, because they're tying up too many resources where if they could route those incidents to the person that could fix them the first time, it would just save a lot of frustration on the customer's behalf. It would make everything a lot more efficient, and a better overall customer support image. It is a bad model that many vendors use.
Georgi Petrov - PeerSpot reviewer
Allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain
What we like the most is how easy it is to implement. I am able to bring fully functional virtual infrastructure in a matter of two hours with StorMagic SvSAN, compared to other technologies that are very complex. StorMagic SvSAN does not have hardware-specific requirements and is hypervisor agnostic, which makes it easier compared to competitors like HPE SimpliVity that are limited to specific hardware. This solution has allowed us to achieve unification and standardization across our sites, making it easy to install and maintain.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"StorMagic SvSAN offers cost savings compared to other software-defined virtual SAN solutions."
"StorMagic SvSAN's best feature is that it is platform agnostic."
"The part I like most about it is just that it does not require a lot of touch. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and it is straightforward."
"StorMagic SvSAN has demonstrated flawless stability over the past six years, with no reported downtime, bugs, or glitches."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a highly reliable option for customers with enterprise needs and tight budgets."
"It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters."
"This synchronization is easy with StorMagic, and we can establish availability between servers."
"StorMagic SvSAN is a very effective solution and the interface is good."
 

Cons

"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."
"It would be beneficial if they adopted the recommended configuration for other vendors and offered pre-built, pre-configured scenarios with best practices readily available on their websites."
"It could be a little bit more intuitive in terms of the way you set it up initially."
"StorMagic SvSAN's management or witness server, a standard Linux box, lacks security hardening."
"StorMagic SvSAN can improve by simplifying the implementation and training."
"In the next release, StorMagic SvSAN should include multi-node clusters, which would allow storage spaces to be used more efficiently."
"StorMagic SvSAN can improve by simplifying the implementation and training."
"StorMagic SvSAN's management or witness server, a standard Linux box, lacks security hardening."
"The only improvement area I can see is their licensing. For example, the memory caching feature is only available in an advanced license. Normally, it's in a standard license. It would be better if they had memory caching features in the product. Some backup features should also be in the product"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a cheaper solution than Nutanix and HyperFlex."
"While it is less than other solutions, such as vSAN, for instance, it is still significant. However, it is well worth it in terms of the quality of the product and the support that it allows me to have. We are buying the flagship product from them. We are always buying premium support and all the features that we need, so it is a little bit steep upfront, but it is less than other solutions and comes with excellent support."
"While not the cheapest option, it offers comparable functionality for 20 to 30 percent lower than its competitors."
"The product has good pricing."
"The pricing of StorMagic SvSAN is fairly good because if you compare it with VMware, it's at a better price. This is an important thing to remember."
"While I lack specific cost details, StorMagic's segmented pricing options offer valuable flexibility, allowing companies to choose solutions based on their needs and capacity."
"StorMagic SvSAN offers competitive pricing within the market."
"I would rate the cost a one out of ten with ten being the most costly."
"The price of the solution is reasonable. Our budget was two terabytes and the price met our use case well."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Retailer
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
10%
 

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What do you like most about StorMagic SvSAN?
It helps us prevent any data loss while working with the failover clusters.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorMagic SvSAN?
StorMagic SvSAN is very cost-efficient. The pricing model, based on the usable storage capacity, is simple and predictable. You know exactly how much each storage tier costs, and upgrading is strai...
What needs improvement with StorMagic SvSAN?
Maybe the hardware compatibility could be expanded or widened. Another point could be to change the price model since it has lots of capacity but does not always fit our pricing requirements. We ar...
 

Also Known As

VxFlex Ready Nodes
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