We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and IBM VersaStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"It has great free trials that allow end users to test a large variety of their products before deciding to buy the full product."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"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 that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"The combination of Cisco's architecture and IBM's flash technology. Cisco provides FI technology which provides one simple architecture. IBM's flash technology is fast."
"The solution has high IOPS and the I/O is important because it gives us more transactions per second."
"Replication and DR implementation became faster."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"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."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Raw data mapping for storage should be a given option."
"The solution should improve deduplication to get a lot of savings."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while IBM VersaStack is ranked 8th in Converged Infrastructure with 3 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while IBM VersaStack is rated 8.0. 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 IBM VersaStack writes "A very high IOPS that gives more I/O transactions per second". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas IBM VersaStack is most compared with Dell VxBlock System.
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