We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"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."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"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 feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"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."
"While we haven't made major changes to our disaster recovery and business continuity processes yet, moving towards stretch vSAN across sites will simplify and expedite our DR processes in the future."
"I have used VMware for 15 years and I never had any problems with stability."
"Being hyperconverged, it simplifies what equipment we have to buy."
"The most valuable features for us are the ability to scale out the nodes independently, and the flexibility of the nodes. We can put almost any type of server in there with our connectivity and everything works great."
"All the features are working great."
"It's very scalable. I like that. Adding a node is easy. Adding a disk group is easy."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"It is very well known in the industry, and there are a lot of technical resources around it. This is a big thing for me because, at the end of the day, when you implement it, you need to support it."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"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."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Dedupe in non flash drives can be improved."
"If the support could be provided more quickly, it would be very helpful."
"The server files are larger than before."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"Perhaps they could provide encryption without having to use an encryption manager."
"This solution could be improved by having more than one controller for the environment. VMware depends on one controller for the whole environment, whereas Nutanix has one controller for each node. Because there is only one controller with VMware, if there was any drop, then the whole environment would stop working. In Nutanix, I have five nodes—there is one controller for each node and it depends on a virtual controller—so if the controller of any node is down, the whole environment will still work."
"I have used the VMware Replication but I can't get it to work properly. The process should be simplified."
"I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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