We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"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."
"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 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."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"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."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
Earn 20 points
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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