We performed a comparison between NetApp HCI [EOL] and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."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 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 easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"It is highly scalable. Their support is also extremely good."
"It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."
"HCI has helped with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds for the last year. It's faster and more reliable with minimal downtime, as it doesn't require any maintenance."
"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."
"It is easy to administrate the solution, and the company handles its technical support well."
"It's an all-flash solution. NetApp guarantees 3-to-1 or more than 3-to-1. It has guaranteed performance, like 15K IOPS per node."
"The most valuable feature is the software design storage that really provided a faster, agile, easier to scale up and out storage path."
"The ability to size the available space in a way that matches our company's needs is most valuable. For instance, you can decide if you want 80/20, 70/30, or 60/40 space. Redundancy depends on your needs without changing the appliance. You just add space and decide the percentage of space that you need free and the percentage of space that you need for backup. It is all automatic, and you don't have to do anything. You just add space, and the system automatically configures itself with the chosen option."
"This is a good solution for medium-sized installations especially when it will be coupled with VMware."
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"VxRail simplifies IT infrastructure management by providing a single management console for compute, storage, and network. The second advantage is that VxRail offers a continuously validated architecture from the OEM. This means that Dell thoroughly tests all firmware updates before being released or installed on the product, helping to prevent compatibility issues. The third benefit is its ten-year roadmap. Dell consistently announces a roadmap for the product spanning the next decade."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"The most valuable feature for me in this latest release has been the ability to add a compute or storage node. In the previous release, if I wanted to add only the compute mode, I need to buy a full node, including both compute and storage. That is no longer the case; I can upgrade whatever I want one based on my demand."
"With VxRail, we can manage the life cycle of a virtual machine."
"The update process is very convenient."
"There is no in-depth config involved nor third-party needed, saving us time and money."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The deployment process has room for improvement. I would like for it to be a cookie-cutter deployment."
"I would like to see the implementation process improved."
"I would like for them to fall a little closer to like the VMware release model. The new features and new solutions tend to come from the VMware side. I would like for NetApp to follow along closely with VMware's release schedule."
"The problem is that it needs to be much more stable, for example, when I want to do the upgrade to 1.7 that just released, I also need to issue a ticket to the support guy in India and he asked me to deploy another mlock. There are a lot of manual steps compared with other products."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate to multiple sites."
"If you want to have a really dense data center then it's hard to have a big chunk of cabling going through everything."
"It would be nice to have better access to tutorials and a test environment for simulations."
"To improve the product, they should make it more flexible."
"The way that the VxRail is licensed could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having more storage performance because in some other solutions you can have a file system that can be mounted at several places at one time."
"Troubleshooting can be a little more difficult than legacy systems."
"I would like to have a unified platform where I, for example, can manage my 50 stores from a single portal in VxRail and be able to apply all the updates at once. I want to unify them into a centralized console."
"The configurations of VxRail can be difficult. However, it has improved in the newer version. From version 6 to 7, there has been a lot of changes."
"One area of the product that could be improved is the support."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"The solution should offer more integration with other virtual software. VxRail runs just with VMware, however, maybe it should integrate with Hyper-V or with KVM as well."
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NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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