We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is stable and reliable. This is one of the main reasons why we purchased this solution."
"For me, the most valuable feature is in relation to the software updates."
"VxRail alleviates the operational constraints within an organization."
"The stability of VxRail is good, we have not had any issues."
"We like the design and that it meets data storage needs."
"The major advantage is the blueprint. You do not need to separately manage the sand or network part because it all gets virtualized."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar environments."
"Depending on your architecture type, it's simple to manage and implement VxRail compared to other solutions. That's why most of our customers use it."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"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."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"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."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"They need to keep upgrading the environment and improving automation so that the solution keeps getting better and better."
"The search feature isn't good."
"The version upgrade process should be simplified."
"What I did not like so much was the amount of VMware that you have to put in your system related to the VxRail."
"The upgrade packages require a lot of bandwidth. This could be reduced for an improved experience."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"There are still some features which aren't built into Cisco, like virtualized networking, that use its applications. However, these can be purchased through another product as an additional licensing cost to us."
"The cost is quite high. It's a very expensive solution to run."
Dell XC Appliance is ranked 38th in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. Dell XC Appliance is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Dell XC Appliance is most compared with , whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Dell XC Appliance vs. VxRail report.
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