We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and FlexPod XCS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The install itself is easy as pie."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The fact that I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"It has simplified our support."
"We got the product and we have a small environment, but it was able to be scalable to when we started to grow."
"It is absolutely resilient. It has built-in redundancy and multipathing. If there is an issue with one part, it doesn't fail automatically."
"We have significantly less latency now with our imagery."
"FlexPod has reduced our overall TCO and simplified our operations."
"The solution can be innovative when it comes to cloud computing storage and networking."
"It has never fallen out from under us when we were trying to do a critical push."
"I would rate technical support as a 10 out of 10. They are good and responsive."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"Something that we struggle with because we're a relatively small scale organization and the administrative effort is spread across so many different pieces of infrastructure, it would be nice to have a set of tools that enables us to get a little bit more information out of our system."
"We would like FlexPod to have more power, though it is not lacking in power now."
"Updates are not frequent enough."
"As we do much of the Tier-I support ourselves, and thus don't normally need it, there is time wasted in moving up to the next level."
"The FAS in it, with all its flexibility and scalability, it is much more complex and could be simplified."
"One of the things that I've wanted would be availability of a health status, similar to Active IQ from my converged platform, on an app. I have dashboards so I can see the health of the system when I'm in the office, but when I'm not in the office I can't."
"Perhaps the automation interface could be improved."
"Newer platform reference architectures take a long time to harden and be publicly available."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata, VxRail and Dell VxBlock System.
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