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DxEnterprise vs Windows Server Failover Clustering comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

DxEnterprise
Ranking in High Availability Clustering
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Server Virtualization Software (22nd)
Windows Server Failover Clu...
Ranking in High Availability Clustering
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the High Availability Clustering category, the mindshare of DxEnterprise is 4.5%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Windows Server Failover Clustering is 22.1%, down from 32.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
High Availability Clustering Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Windows Server Failover Clustering22.1%
DxEnterprise4.5%
Other73.4%
High Availability Clustering
 

Featured Reviews

it_user609366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Initial setup was relatively straightforward for a clustering solution.
SQL patching High availability We were looking for a better-than-Microsoft-SQL clustering solution. The interface can seem a little old school at times. By Old School, I simply mean from a graphics perspective it looks like word 97, not word 2013. I have used it for three years. The team from…
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A scalable solution to create clusters, and auto-assign a master
The solution has some downsides related to the election mechanism, meaning that if the servers or the cluster services or cluster server elect one server, they will attribute to that server an object that is called a quorum. This quorum does the server or the service that has that quorum, it is taken as the master. So when you have, for example, something happens in your data centers like a power outage or an unexpected shutdown, and you can't start the master server what sometimes will happen, is since the shutdown was unexpected, the cluster didn't have time to do some post configurations before the extension of the shutdown of the servers, sometimes that quorum can't be removed from the crashed master and the cluster wants stuff. This is part of the architecture of this service, the Failover service. So sometimes we face this type of problem. In the past, we had a lot of power outages and when we started after, our server, we faced this problem. Meaning that the cluster won't stop because one of the servers, the master crashed, and they didn't want to start. So we need to access and do some line configurations so that we will force the cluster to elect a new master and ignore the crashed one.
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
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Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Windows Server Failover Clustering?
There is no extra charge except a service fee for some professional work. I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with Windows Server Failover Clustering?
The solution uses external storage, while third-party solutions don't use external storage. They're using a mirror to create a partition on each server and synchronize the data in the background. I...
What is your primary use case for Windows Server Failover Clustering?
We use the solution for warehouse purposes. We built an SQL server on the solution.
 

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Sample Customers

Asante, Eversheds, Vecima Networks, W&W AFCO Steel, City of Aurora, Menigo, Linn County Sheriff's Office
Karl-Franzens-Universit_t Graz, NAV CANADA, Magnachip, ólectricit_ de France, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, Bank Alfalah Ltd., Local Government Association of Queensland
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