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"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"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."
"The initial setup is simple."
"VxRail is a simple, efficient solution. It's easy to upgrade and scale the solution. If we increase our user base, we can easily scale it out. We have several thousand using it now."
"The scalability of VxRail is very good."
"The implementation was quick, we used a checklist and it took approximately one hour."
"The update capability of VxRail is crucial for us."
"VxRail has high performance and has great efficiency. There is a single place for us to manage all of our virtual machines. The ability to right-size instead of overcommit VMs is a large benefit."
"It makes for easier deployments through automation and improved accessibility."
"We enjoy the ease of management since all of the resources are located on one box — one single point of support."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"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."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"VxRail should try to improve the pricing."
"We would like to see integrating with Nutanix. Currently, we are working on integrating the two to see if there is any value in doing so."
"Integration could be improved."
"The product has high pricing. This particular area needs improvement."
"Deployment was not initially straightforward for us. We had an incompatibility issue that was very difficult for Dell Professional Service to solve."
"VxRail is a closed system with an out-of-the -box solution approach, it has basic 3 layers, Hardware, Network, Storage, Software, (Virtualizing) Applications. Release notes and improvement tips, patches from the back office, the business units, should be frequent and up to the patches which are coming from different vendors as far as the operating system application and also the technology itself is concerned."
"You have to buy a new server if you want to scale up."
"The search feature isn't good."
Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 19th in HCI with 2 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with HPE Alletra dHCI, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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