"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"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."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"We find the setup quite straightforward and very easy."
"The cover points feature in VxRail is remarkable. It's unique. It has an intervention failover system as well as an automatic failover system, reaching clusters existing in VxRail. This makes all files act as a single file with a large and huge resource, and, of course, with customized administration, configuration, and resources. It provides automatic failover for redundancy and data recovery."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"There are so many features, but if I have to choose, I would go for scale-out upgrades and performance. Scale-out upgrades are very valuable. Typically, when customers engage in virtualization, they're committing themselves to run many virtual machines on a fewer number of hosts. They'll have five or six hosts, and they will run all their virtualization on vSphere. They could be having anywhere from 50 to 100 or even more virtual machines. Once all these go into production, getting downtime or getting planned maintenance windows is extremely difficult. It is something that typically businesses will frown upon. With VxRail, you can just go ahead and add a node without disrupting the existing environment, which works very well. That's why scale-out upgrades are a key feature. Its performance is also valuable. It delivers a very high number of IOPS for a hybrid configuration or an all-flash configuration. The processors that are available in the Xeon family are very powerful. They are multi-core with typically 2 gigahertz, 2.4 gigahertz, or higher frequency, so the performance is very much appreciated."
"The scalability of VxRail is very good."
"The recent technologies and management features that have been implemented."
"VxRail can manage the whole cluster at the same time, so it's easy to expand. VxRail has more features vSAN ReadyNodes that make it easier to implement from scratch."
"The update process is very convenient."
"VxRail has given us a lot of tools in a one-stop-shop environment."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"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 would like to see different levels of support offered."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"The user management could be a bit better. It's something they could improve upon in future releases."
"It would be an improvement if VxRail could be integrated with some other hypervisors and not just with VMware."
"There is limited support for SAP HANA with this solution."
"The licensing costs are too expensive. They should work on their pricing model."
"Sometimes during implementation, you can some scripting errors. And there are some issues when we update the version. There are some issues like the version will not get updated or stable at some time. Dell needs to resolve these problems, we don't waste time fixing them."
"Pricing could be improved."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"Deployment was not initially straightforward for us. We had an incompatibility issue that was very difficult for Dell Professional Service to solve."
"You cannot install another operating system such as Microsoft or Hyperflex or Nutanix. We have also had a hardware problem."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 18th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 1 review while VxRail is ranked 3rd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 70 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series writes "Stable with good pricing and pretty good technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Good automation makes this solution practical". Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Nutanix Acropolis AOS, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Dell EMC PowerFlex and Veeam Backup & Replication.
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