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VxRail pros and cons

Vendor: Dell Technologies

4.3 out of 5

133 reviews
94% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

VxRail offers seamless scalability allowing easy upgrades without disruption, driven by powerful processors ensuring ample IOPS for hybrid and all-flash setups. It streamlines IT management with single-point control of compute, storage, and network, and integrates seamlessly with VMware for VDI and VM migration. Despite its superior stability, deployment can be slow, initial setup is fragmented, and costs are high. Some upgrades are complex, often needing Dell support.

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PROS

VxRail offers high availability and seamless scalability, allowing businesses to add nodes without disrupting existing environments.

It simplifies IT infrastructure management by providing a unified platform for compute, storage, and network.

The one-click upgrade feature enhances efficiency, reducing the time spent on administration and minimizing downtime.

Its integration with VMware environments enables real-time VM migrations and seamless operations, ensuring consistent performance.

VxRail's centralized management through VxRail Manager combines storage and vSAN, providing a streamlined experience.

CONS

VxRail is expensive, and pricing needs improvement.

Initial setup of VxRail is complex and requires expertise.

VxRail lacks integration and support for multiple hypervisors other than VMware.

The upgrade process and support require improvement.

VxRail is vendor-locked, limiting flexibility in hardware choices.

VxRail Pros review quotes

Christian Schulte

Leiter IT at Deutsche reihenhaus ag

Jan 23, 2024

The update capability of VxRail is crucial for us.

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AR

Technical Lead at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 25, 2021

The feature that I have found most valuable with VxRail is its upgrade. Because if you talk about the normal ESX process you have to upgrade the firmware, the bios, and you have to manage the compatibility. You have to do a lot of things. But in the case of VxRail, it's a single upgrade, end to end. You simply upload the bundle, click next, it will do some pre-checks, if those pre-checks pass, it will update everything one by one. It will put one ESX in the maintenance and move other VM's to another mode. There is no downtime to the VM's.

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Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

May 8, 2019

The most valuable feature is the fact that the storage is integrated with the VxRail so I don't have to go in between systems when I have to monitor my storage.

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reviewer2318352

Product owner at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 21, 2024

The most compelling aspect of VxRail lies in its unwavering guarantee of sustained performance for my systems, regardless of their geographical distribution.

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reviewer2340924

RSI

Feb 4, 2024

One-click upgrade is valuable because upgrading an environment that is considered a traditional one is something that we never do or are never going to complete. It is very time-consuming for my team. With the one-click upgrade, it is much quicker. There are preparation stages, but it takes less time, so we are also saving time in the daily administration.

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KP

Senior Systems Engineer at MultiChoice Group

Apr 10, 2024

The storage virtualization feature of VxRail has been the most vital part of our company's improvement in operations.

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reviewer1754808

Account Executive at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Jan 13, 2022

The VxRail is built on two specific platforms that have been in the industry for the last 15 to 20 years: the 1-U socket and the 2-U socket platforms from Dell. They're in their sixteenth generation of those platforms, I believe, so they're very stable.

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VK

Director Of Information Technology at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 7, 2020

You don't have to worry too much about the hardware and you don't have to work on integrating a storage device. We instead have this as an all-in-one solution and everything is available as a box.

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MM

Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Equinox International

Aug 20, 2020

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.

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VDI SysAdmin/Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

Nov 20, 2020

I like the managed updates. They are really nice in VxRail. Everything comes packaged and the updates are much easier than with other solutions that I've had to work with.

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VxRail Cons review quotes

Christian Schulte

Leiter IT at Deutsche reihenhaus ag

Jan 23, 2024

Obtaining support was hindered by the frequent changes to the hotline numbers.

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AR

Technical Lead at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 25, 2021

If we could have some out of the box ideas in integration, I think that would be a great feature.

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Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

May 8, 2019

The only issue which is every now and again is that when you log in it will tell you that there's an issue with VxRail when there actually isn't. All that's required is a refresh or reload. The solution itself works but you may get some bad reports every now and again. Probably once every couple of months; there is no effect to the solution's capabilities.

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reviewer2318352

Product owner at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 21, 2024

While VxRail offers compatibility with AMD processors, its capabilities in this area could benefit from further development.

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reviewer2340924

RSI

Feb 4, 2024

We have issues at times with the one-click upgrade, which is bugging us. At times, the one-click upgrade does not work or does not work well.

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KP

Senior Systems Engineer at MultiChoice Group

Apr 10, 2024

The present SaaS model license structure can be improved.

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reviewer1754808

Account Executive at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Jan 13, 2022

I would like to see Dell take a crack at simplifying the process of moving from a node to a cluster and assembling everything into the appliance. It would be great if Dell could provide a pathway where a customer could actually install it without the certifications. Of course, I can't say how you would dumb down something so complex.

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VK

Director Of Information Technology at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 7, 2020

Right now, it's difficult for a non-technical person to participate in using the product. It could be made more consumer-friendly.

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MM

Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Equinox International

Aug 20, 2020

If they can provide deduplication compression through the traditional hard drives, as Cisco does in the HyperFlex system, it will be very cost-effective, especially when it comes to archiving workload. VxRail doesn't allow the mixing of old flash clusters and hyper clusters. When I'm starting with an old flash cluster and it comes to archiving workload, I will also need to attend the new cluster. So, I either manage two different clusters, or I pay and upload my work with the archiving mobile hard drive, which is not cost-effective at all. The main key is to allow mixing between two types of clustering, like Nutanix, or allow deduplication of completion over the period of shared hard drive on SAV. It will be much better.

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VDI SysAdmin/Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

Nov 20, 2020

The requirements need improvement. Some of the managers of VMs are a little sensitive to where they need to be placed in the environment and what names they need to have. I would like a little more control over that so that it fits into our naming scheme and it fits our organizational structure within vSphere.

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