VxRail Valuable Features
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AlexOltean
Technical architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of VxRail is the VxRail Manager, which centralizes resources like storage built with vSAN. It provides a unified way to access these resources, making management straightforward.
Another benefit is the fully automated upgrade process, which is completed with just one click through the VxRail Manager. This centralization and automation enhance efficiency significantly.
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Rami Jadallah
Data Center Solution Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The primary reasons customers choose VxRail include ease of management, ease of upgrades, and integration with VMware. The hyper-converged infrastructure simplifies software and hardware upgrades.
Customers prefer the single pane of glass management and integration with VMware, which makes it easier for them to proceed with decisions involving VMware products.
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Saleh Khalid
computer scientist at a government with 10,001+ employees
The best features of VxRail are its compatibility with VMware, its hyper-converged solution capabilities, and its single line of support. These are the most beneficial aspects of VxRail.
I switched from the previous HP solution to Dell solution because it was a good decision. With HP servers, we dealt with a vendor for the compute servers, another vendor for the storage servers, and another vendor for the networking, which required us to manage multiple vendors. Now, we have a single team who can handle VxRail and a single line of support. We don't need anything other than that, and these are the differences we noticed after we switched.
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December 2025
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Peter Braack
Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The features of VxRail that we find most useful for our customers include the easy update mechanism and the support for both VMware and hardware. The solution provides a comprehensive approach where everything is managed from a single source. This gives it added value as it streamlines operations.
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Luis Morillo
Manager infrastructure at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The low latency and response times and having a virtualized environment within a single computer are valuable. I have no physical elements, and I can optimize or balance my data depending on the sales volume that I have in a specific store.
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reviewer2339184
Global IT Systems Manager at a renewables & environment company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Homogeneity is most valuable. The truth is that having everything in a single cluster helps a lot.
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RSI
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.
Christian Schulte
Leiter IT at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
The update capability of VxRail is crucial for us. It allows us to apply updates quickly and easily, which is especially valuable with our smaller team. Even though the team has grown slightly, we still have the same person managing the system. Fortunately, VxRail's efficient update process enables this colleague to perform updates rapidly without significant disruptions to our business operations.
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Sushil MIshra
AG at a security firm with 10,001+ employees
I like the caching mechanism. Frequently used data is stored, so it definitely improves performance.
VxRail's integration with VMware environments is very good. Our VxRail is built on VMware, and the integration is seamless. We haven't faced any challenges. We can migrate VMs between servers in real-time and replicate them to our DR site without any problems.
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AhmedEdwan
Presales + Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
VxRail offers scalable small nodes and ROBO office nodes, which I find very tempting for customers. These features address the value proposition of VxRail. The lifecycle management capabilities also represent significant value.
I think the new integration with NVMe is great, and they are moving forward on that front, so more integration with NVMe would be beneficial.
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Kreason Pillay
Senior Systems Engineer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
In our organization, whenever we require support from VxRail, we call a single support line where we get the issues resolved over the same call, whether it's a hardware or software issue with VxRail.
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JillurRahman
Head Of Information Technology at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is good. The solution has simplified our operations. It integrates everything into the same place. All our network, storage, and computing tools are integrated together. It is more easy to manage. The integrated management tools are good.
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Achilles Lobo
Infrastructure Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
One of VxRail's most valuable features is its small footprint in the data center. Additionally, the solution's simplicity is a significant advantage. You don’t have to configure or learn about storage software and administer many things separately. You can do all the administration jobs in one pane, bringing agility and simplicity.
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Saurabh_Kumar
Information Technology Security Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We don't want some of our applications on the public cloud. We want to keep them on-premise in our environment for various security and compliance reasons. VxRail gives us the flexibility that we usually get on the cloud. We can scale as per the demand with a quick turnaround. Once we get familiar with the tool, it is pretty easy to manage and build. The tool is easy to manage and easy to maintain. It provides amazing support and a good return on investment.
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Ingeniero compare at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is very powerful. We find that to be the most valuable aspect. The movement of devices between nodes is very easy.
Rahul G
Sr. Technology Analyst at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Based on our requirements in the VxRail environment, we can increase or decrease the resources as needed, without needing to reconfigure every server at a specific time. This solution ensures uptime, providing 100% availability so servers can operate without downtime.
The solution works with VMware on the software side. It's an integrated EMS product with hardware provided as a bundle by Broadcom. Unlike Nutanix, which focuses solely on HCI, VxRail includes VMware software, offering a complete solution without the need to choose operating systems like Windows or Linux separately. The solution also has AI capabilities.
KuldeepSingh4
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
One of the solution's most valuable features is its zero-day deployment. The deployment is extremely fast, which our company's customers find very interesting. The lifecycle management feature makes the VxRail environment function quicker than other traditional, discreet environments.
For daily operations, VxRail has a great direct monitoring feature. The solution also offers seamless support to track issues through ESRS premises.
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Matthias Reuter
Team Lead Hosted Services at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The assurance that my systems would not suffer a performance drop no matter where they are is valuable. I do not need any extra hardware.
Sourabh Madan
Solution architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
VxRail is aligned with the VMware environment, and VMware is a stable product. Running a virtual machine on it is much easier and more accessible because it is a configured appliance. VxRail allows us to contain the sprawling of servers and provides visibility. With VxRail, we can manage the life cycle of a virtual machine.
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Faisal_Zia
Team Lead of Senior Directors at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
VxRail integration with multiple products is among the best key points for selling to any end customer.
The main feature of VxRail is its integration. VxRail integrates with almost all major products. Another key feature is its monitoring capabilities. VxRail provides detailed monitoring from the application level, making it easy to troubleshoot issues. Additionally, their CloudIQ software suggests best practices automatically. For instance, if you are taking snapshot backups on VxRail, CloudIQ will inform you in advance if there are any issues. For example, if you planned to take ten snapshots in one day but only eight were successful due to a receiver issue, CloudIQ will help you identify the problem and suggest best practices to resolve it. It provides comprehensive data and information without consulting different websites or people.
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Shashedar Narayanamurthy
Procurement, Information Technology, Infrastructure at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
VxRail uses a plug-and-play concept, so you can easily add nodes. While the initial implementation might be complex, you won't need a dedicated team to manage it once it's fully set up. VxRail supports straightforward scaling, allowing you to add as many nodes as needed for upgrades and simplifying the upgrade process.
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Vaidyanathan Swaminathan
Co-Founder at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature of the solution is the performance.
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Letarik Terefe
Information Technology Division Director at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
One of the most valuable features we have found is the ease of managing our virtualization environment. The management interface makes overseeing various resources and tasks within our infrastructure simple. Additionally, managing different kinds of hardware and platforms through the same interface is highly valuable.
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Product owner at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most compelling aspect of VxRail lies in its unwavering guarantee of sustained performance for my systems, regardless of their geographical distribution. This eliminates the need for any additional hardware or cumbersome configuration, ensuring a streamlined and worry-free experience.
Pavaredh Poungkeaw
Product Manager at a university with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature is that it is VMware-embedded. VxRail HCI is on VMware, and we can use VMware vCenter and vSphere. Our infrastructure consists of servers and VMware, and by using VxRail, our experience and familiarity have not changed because VxRail HCI is on VMware.
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SamuelThomas
Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The computing achieved by the solution for more than 100 VMs with less storage is very good. The software integration is easy, like plug-and-play. Compared with other products, the IT administrator or IT integrator doesn't take much time to get the tool up and running.
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MinaMagdy1
Senior System Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
VxRail is a unique product due to its adoption with VMware. It does work with PowerEdge servers from Dell. The hyper-converged software-defined storage is very good. The vSAN acts as software-defined storage. It offers very innovative features. It offers a very solid service alongside its innovative features and capabilities.
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John Dabek
Sr Director, Infrastructure at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The ease of deployment and management of the solution are the most valuable aspects of the product. It's important due to the fact that, with 1800 stores, we can't afford to have an extensive staff to manage it.
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Farhan Ashraf
Presales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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.
VXRail enhances data center scalability through its CI-based architecture. It allows for node-based scalability, meaning up to sixty-four nodes can be added to a single cluster. This scalability feature enables customers to scale up as needed without downtime.
Apart from the single management console, one of the most valuable features I've found in VxRail is its continuously validated architecture backed by Dell. This means that all firmware and updates undergo testing in Dell labs. Unlike with standard Dell servers, where we update firmware independently, with VxRail, Dell provides compatibility information for each update, ensuring we never encounter compatibility issues.
Integrating the tool with other products is quite straightforward. It's open in terms of storage, allowing for easy integration of third-party external storage solutions at both the network and storage levels. Additionally, all third-party backup software is integratable with it.
The product's automation lifecycle management is a good feature.
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Sander Verhulst
System Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
It's a powerful solution. It's very capable. That's useful for us in our environment.
It helps simplify the management of VMware. They make it very easy.
It's useful that we can consolidate infrastructure from multiple locations. This is important to us. We've already consolidated a lot of physical machines. It makes management easier and centralizes everything. We don't have everything split across separate locations or thousands of physical machines.
VxRail helped with production downtime.
We have four clusters at the moment and can easily shift around our virtual appliances. It's really flexible. We can shift around as needed.
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Daniel Bruce
CTO at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The fact that we can expand our nodes horizontally and the integration with VMware, which is what we use for all of our server virtualizations, has been most valuable.
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Linas Adamonis
Head of Cloud and Servers Technologies at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The best features of HCI are the reliability and no need to have additional storage models and storage administrators. All the things—such as virtualization models, storage models, and networking—are in one environment. So, a single hardware administrator can access and support everything. I like HCI because of being able to have all components of virtualization in one cluster and in one place. There is no SAN and storage. It brings simplicity to hardware maintenance.
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Muhammad-Hassan
Deputy Manager - Virtualization at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The environment is easy to manage.
The compute is good and we have not had any issues with the vSAN.
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Johan Malan
System administrator at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
I have found the vSAN is highly flexible. The documentation is good and the interface of the solution is responsive and fast. The interface has everything you need to manage the solution, such as the VxRail and VMware integration. You can manage the hardware from within the VMware plasma pan.
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Rolando-Rodriguez
Pre sales Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Management of the hardware and software in one console is the most valuable feature. It's also compatible with vSAN.
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System engineer at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The installation process is very quick. When you purchase it, it's up and running without much delay. Adding any additional components is simple, allowing for easy and fast scaling without adding complexity. The centralized management portal makes it easy to manage the entire system.
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KareemEzzat
Cyber Security Analyst at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
This solution is very good. It's a product from the other line, and it's very efficient for us. It has worked very well for us, and we haven't encountered any critical issues with it.
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Andreas Eberhard
Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
What I like the most in terms of features is the fact that the VxRail update can be done in one week. It takes much less time to do a whole server upgrade and an infrastructure update as well.
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Enrique-Rodriguez
Lead Converged Infrastructure Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
What I find very valuable is VxRail's life cycle management. The life cycle management takes care of everything from firmware to the actual upgrading of the hypervisor and keeps everything up to level.
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Mahammad Shafi Shaikh
Senior Manager Information System Administration at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
We are not just purchased the server, we transformed our infrastructure into Powerful and Efficient, agile, flexible and scalable, polished and proven technology solution build with VMWare. New HCI - VxRail replaced with our existing 42U rack devices consists of BladeCenter, storage and other rack mountable servers into simple, more powerful 4 node VxRail device
which saves power and maintenance cost very drastically.
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Account Executive at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
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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Savera-Menezes
Head of IT Infrastructure at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Hyperscale is the most valuable feature I found on this solution. It's the ability to utilize the resources for the VMware cluster setup on which Citrix VDA runs.
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Rony Chamoun
Team Lead for Data center at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
It's a good product based on the features. You can upgrade the solution with only one click.
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Sr Solution Architect - Enterprise Storage and Virtualization at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks.
The ability to manage everything from a single console is one of the key advantages that our clients see. They don't have to worry about how to manage the storage, how to manage the servers, and how to manage the virtualization layer. Everything comes in a single platform. As a result, IT teams are shrinking, and very often, the budgets are no longer for people. They're more for automation.
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KareemEzzat
Cyber Security Analyst at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The data conversion capabilities are very good.
Deduplication is excellent.
The initial setup is simple.
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AhmedHafied
EUC Consultant
VxRail is a simple, efficient solution. It's easy to upgrade and scale the solution. If we increase our user base, we can easily scale it out. We have several thousand using it now.
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Slava Mislivets
Sr. Infrastructure Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
VxRail does not require fiber switches or external storage. It's easy to replace and manage. It's centralized management through VxRail Manager.
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Markus Kemppinen
Software Specialist at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The tool's price is competitive and it is easy to use.
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Adalberto Ortiz Gonxalez
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We like the design and that it meets data storage needs.
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SunilNarayanan
Sr.EMC Storage Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
The upgrading and virtualization of VxRail are easy to use. Compared to some of the other technology we use which requires a 32 GB memory minimum for one VM, VxRail does not require this additional memory.
reviewer1851963
Global Virtualization & Cloud Engineer III at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
This solution is very scalable and you can add extra nodes to the cluster and bring it online without any interruption to production systems.
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Letarik Terefe
ICT Project manager and Development Team Leader at a transportation company with 11-50 employees
The valuable features for us are the VDI, UCC, and HCI.
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Lubabalo Ntoni
Data Centre Systems Engineer at a logistics company with 201-500 employees
We have Dell enterprise licensing and use all the features. VxRail is a complete solution that includes performance, backups, and disaster recover.
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Müfit Metin
Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
One of the biggest VxRail features our customers require is hardware redundancy. Customers have good network products like Cisco for their local networks, so they were ready when they did the POC work. The other thing is application completion, VxRail's most effective feature.
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Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's somewhat hard to speak about specific features, but I like VxRail's simplicity and ease of use. It's a decent solution for customers with a small footprint. If you're operating a big data center, it's not easy to position VxRail or HCI solutions, but when you have a small customer managing many different components, it's easier to work only with one solution.
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Station Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable aspect of VxRail is its management capability, especially during deployment. It has so many built-in features.
reviewer1022718
Sales Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
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.
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Director of Information Technology at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
VxRail has high performance and has great efficiency. There is a single place for us to manage all of our virtual machines. The ability to right-size instead of overcommit VMs is a large benefit.
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Yudi Aritonang
Co-Founder and CEO at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
VxRail is a hyper-converged infrastructure that delivers a solution with full performance. It's scalable and easy to maintain.
The replication capabilities have been great.
We find the solution easy to manage.
The product is user-friendly and easy to navigate.
We have had zero problems so far with this product. It's quite reliable.
There is good support on offer.
It's a very quick product.
Updating the product has been very easy. Often, they let us know that there is an update pending so we can expect it.
The features are very powerful.
There are a lot of great features on offer.
We've found the scalability to be very good.
The solution is stable.
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Tin Htut Soe
Information Technology Infrastructure Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
I have found that the professional deployment services from Dell EMC, monitoring Services likes Secure Remote services , and the many others services such as patch updates. Additionally, the deployment team has demonstrated the best practice approach for the appliances.
reviewer1570641
Data Centre and HCI Solutions Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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.
reviewer1521492
System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The most important thing for our customers is the CapEx and OpEx. As a single point of
administration hyper-converged infrastructure, all the solution components, Servers,
vSAN (Storage), Virtualization, backup management, future expansion, and upgrades
can be managed very easily, and the solution is out-of-the-box. Dell EMC provides comminuted support for the upgrades and patch management for hardware, whether it
is related to firmware, operating system, hypervisor layer as well as the applications
also, VMware. It's a very good solution with multiple options with VxRail series like
based on customer requirements whether they're focused on compute, storage, scalability and high performance, etc. Whether a customer you are going to start your IT Infrastructure
footprint with a limited budget, you have freedom of choice and non-disruptive expansion
in the future, whether in the main data center or branches. Any idea coming in system admins mind to run this setup continuously and keep service 100% 24/7 is possible in this
product line. Hyper-converged appliances allow a datacenter in a box approach, with G, E P, Vand P series.
reviewer1365582
Senior Cloud Consultant at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
VxRail alleviates the operational constraints within an organization. It really frees up resources as it requires little maintenance. If you're providing a platform that has consolidated compute, storage, and fabric, then it's basically a turnkey type of solution that organizations can use. It also has one patch, so you're not dealing with several different ecosystems, for example, one supplier for storage, one supplier for compute, and one supplier for networking. It's all bundled into one platform which reduces costs. That also makes it easier to maintain and manage as well.
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Manar Helal
Senior Engineer at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We enjoy the ease of management since all of the resources are located on one box — one single point of support.
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ManuelIglesias
Solutions Architect at a media company with 201-500 employees
The integration with VMware is great. I like it so much because it is so much cleaner and the VMware modeling with the VxRail Manager is very nice. The solution is very good. It is easier. We haven't had any issues with it.
We have three nodes and we had an issue with one of the nodes once and the response time from their support was very nice. When they fixed the part that was bad in the cluster, it began functioning again very nicely and very quickly. It was a great solution. We didn't have any outage or crash due to this failure.
It has a tool called RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, and I liked it so much because it allows for business continuity, and I can replicate virtual machines from one appliance to another. Normally, there are all these rules that we have to have in VMware. We are just implementing this in the first one and the second one. I have the end unit of this distributed solution. It's going to be good but at the moment, we are just deploying it. We made some tests and RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines was very nice.
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Alok Ranjan
Technical Lead at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
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.
It will upgrade end to end infra, including bios from there, your ESX host, everything. So this is a really good feature. Then in new mode feature, they only have to configure it from the network standpoint and it can listen on a second mode. If they see a new mode in the network, the cluster will automatically have that mode as a new member.
VxRail has helped us with the automation. So we are happy with that.
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Paulo Henrique Cruz Da Silva
Arquiteto de infraestrutura at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is good in terms of being resilient with resources. For example, it can process memory well.
We are packaging it with an HCI solution from VMware which pairs well with VxRail. It improves the solution.
The pricing is very, very good.
The overall performance is going to be elevated, giving the customers a better experience.
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FreddyGonzalez
Virtualization Engineer, SME at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
The most valuable features are ease of management and ease of applying updates. It provides centralized management.
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Ajith Varghese
Deputy Manager at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
It is easily scalable, easy to manage, and has rapid provisioning.
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Rodrigo Pavao
Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution allows a user to plan how they will be able to organize their data over the course of many months.
It's very easy to upgrade.
Simplifying network configurations is very easy.
The policies are very good.
it_user1064505
VDI SysAdmin/Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
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.
The fact that it's presenting you validated the design. Anything through the update manager will be guaranteed to work as VMware is integrated into the hardware side of it as well to validate that the patches that they're providing will work. There's less risk there.
The storage, the hyper-converged storage, is a nice boon. We have a sort of isolated storage from our main sandbox so that we can put things on there if the sandbox is having problems or it's basically another fault domain. It's another place where things can be protected.
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Vasanth_Kumar
Director Of Information Technology at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
There's user integration with VMware so you don't have to load VMware on top of it and it works right out of the box.
There's good integration between VMware as my hypervisor and the hardware and it is specifically to size.
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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Mina Magdy
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
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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Data Center Team Lead at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Most of the products of this type have features that are almost the same. We are using VxRail especially because we would like to have products that are compatible with VMware and Dell to support our prospective client base.
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Jason Weber
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The solution is perfect for the lifecycle management of hardware.
The solution allows automated updates to hosts os and hardware, and in some cases switch hardware patches as well.
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Director at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources.
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Igor Zheltukhin
Lead Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
VxRail is a comfortable solution for VMware users. You have one pane of glass from vCenter. They have a convenient update, it's just one click like Nutanix.
VxRail comes with vSAN making it an easy solution. You don't need to think about the compatibility of components.
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Riad SAYAH
Ingénieur Avant vente at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
For me, VxRail's most valuable feature is its life-cycle management.
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Co Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
VxRail is easy to deploy and easy to scale up, but you have to buy a new server if you want to scale up—not just a classic solution like RAM, CPU, or more disk. The solution would be good for a great company that is dynamic and wants to go up very fast.
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Head of Professional Solutions at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I like VxRail because it's fully integrated. The other hyperconverged solutions are also well integrated. They are all highly similar to each other in that regard. But we prefer VxRail for its physical integrations or lifecycle management. It also has vCenter, which integrates the hardware lifecycle management. Everything can be done from vCenter, and that is a big advantage for us.
reviewer746781
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It has a valuable deduplication feature.
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Ahmed_Alaiady
ICT Business Solution Architect at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
The solution is cost-effective and easy to instal, it's just a plug and play. It also contains a ready VMware solution that I use to manage virtual machines. Finally, it is a hyper-converged infrastructure, so it's not a regular server.
reviewer1420599
Director of Information & Technology Services at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
VxRail has high performance and overall good features.
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CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution's most valuable aspect is a combination of a few things. It's fairly scalable, for example. It has a lot of performance-inspired management tools. They are very important to us to be able to manage and monitor the entire solution. VxRail has given us a lot of tools in a one-stop-shop environment.
The solution has been very stable so far.
The initial setup is very easy.
Technical support is great.
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Pre-Sale Specialist at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
A valuable feature of the solution is that it allows everything to be integrated into a single model, comprised of hardware and software.
reviewer1425435
Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We use the solution to solve our performance problems in the environment. In spite of the great expense, I needed to deploy a good alternate solution for our VDI clients, as there was a need to address the slow pace of the VDI and other deployment issues.
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Sazeen Mohammed
Systems Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
I like the simplicity of the orchestrating network, storage, and compute under one umbrella.
The footprint is very minimal too. For management operations, the VxRail appliance is easy to use.
I like that there is a dependency on the storage controller.
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Ahmed Gamil
PreSales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
When it comes to valuable features there are two different areas. From the business perspective, it is a lot cheaper, simple to manage, and easy to store in a small data center. You will only need small preparations for all the credential from the data center. From a technical perspective, you are able to manage all your data centers from one portal.
Dell owns the EMC, EMC owns VMware, and there are many other interconnections throughout the industry which allows a fully integrated solution from a technical perspective. If you open a ticket related to hardware or software it is from the same portal.
Additionally, we do not have a lot of issues with the customers related to the workloads or any sort of business related to this solution, we do not have issues with compatibility.
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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The simplicity and manageability of VxRail are most valuable. We have a very good experience with this product. Its stability and scalability are also very good.
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Ahmet Gul
Solution Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
One beneficial feature is that the solution can handle complex environments.
reviewer908976
General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This solution optimizes our clients' resources. Hyper-convergence infrastructure is a great way to optimize the matching resources, the CPUs, and the storage resources. This is the reason why our client uses this solution. Of course, you can trust it to go-to-market, too. You can efficiently and effectively deploy virtual machines and applications using VxRail.
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BT Area Champion/Trainer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The product is a very good software-defined solution.
The product has been simplified so that it's very easy to use.
VxRail is a good product and since Dell acquired VMware and went hyper-converged infrastructure, it's been great. It's a very robust solution.
The main thing is that vSAN software is built-in, inside the hypervisor. It's an excellent way of doing things and it's common sense. If we are talking about other hypervisors, such as, let's say, Cisco HyperFlex, HP SimpliVity, and Nutanix, the difference is where vSAN is built on the VMware. You don't need to create a VM for vSAN. It's built-in, in its hypervisor.
When VMware was acquired by Dell, the hardware and software were combined together, which has been very good.
The support has been excellent, especially if you compare it to IBM.
The solution is very good for smaller entities, such as small or medium-sized organizations.
You can scale the solution quite well.
From a security point of view, the solution is pretty good.
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MAM Support Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is easy to use. When turning on a server or a machine that is required for, deployment or quality assurance, the dynamic deployment of resources is good.
reviewer1067061
Information Technology Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
For me, the most valuable feature is in relation to the software updates. Updated software is very critical as I cannot risk making a mistake. To avoid this, VxRail provides me with pre-tested updates that can be implemented with little interruption. Since we are talking about banking, oil, and gas, there's no need for automating virtual machine creation.
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Deena Khattab
MIS Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
It's very flexible. We can add more servers as much as we want. It also includes the VMware license, I find this good. We do not waste a lot of resources because you are able to use them efficiently, depending on the usage and the processing unit that is used in a node or not.
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Thiago Souza
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
My customers use it for VDI. It has been very usable and very fast to use with VDI. On the VxRail side also, it has been very fast.
reviewer1337028
Network Admin at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The updating of the features was one aspect of the solution that made us decide to use it. I have yet to actually do an update, however.
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Paulo Xavier
Sales Manager at a tech company with 11-50 employees
The software-defined storage and software-defined network are great. We can easily change to VMware on Amazon, or on Azure or on private Cloud running Vx. It's very flexible.
reviewer1346064
Technical Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The manageability for controlling the console is the most valuable feature.
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Suraj Godar
Sn. Eng Infrastructure Solution at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The support is very good from the dataset. The recent technologies and management features that have been implemented, especially the application part, are good features.
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Reinhard Weber
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The installation was really easy to perform.
The most valuable aspect on VxRail is the one-click update where they are doing the updates all at once for the drivers, buyers, ID reg, and for the VMS. In one click it's running. It's great.
The performance is very good.
The update process is very convenient.
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IT Technical Consultant at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The finger click upgrade is the solution's most valuable aspect.
The single point of contact for support is excellent.
Management and monitoring tools are great. The solution has a very nice user interface and an easy to navigate dashboard. Everything that a company needs can be found on VxRail.
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Rajith Attupurath
Senior Network & System Administrator at a university with 201-500 employees
VxRail's feature that we found most valuable is its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages. However, we switched out from VxRail because some of our use cases and workloads required a different solution.
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Phil Weingart
Manager of Solutions Architecture at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable feature of this solution is the automation and integration points with other automation tools.
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Managing Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Looking at the modernization and flexibility with VCM and VCF into the cloud.
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DanRogers
Solutions Architect at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
It gives us tons of flexibility. We can create new machines, then destroy them if they don't work out. We test a lot of use cases that may or may not play out. We can build all types of scenarios into virtual machines that we may or may not use. If we don't use them, we just turn them off, no using up resources.
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Lead Service Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is its high performance.
The single pane of glass manager is a lot easier than having multiple systems to manage.
Being able to call one vendor instead of multiple vendors is a lot easier.
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Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together. We normally go with either a two node or three node infrastructure, which is nice and small.
Everything is there: The storage, the network, and it is all in one package, so it's easily deployable in a very quick fashion.
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Principal at a tech services company
It is a pre-architected solution, so it's an off-the-shelf solution designed by Dell EMC engineers who work with VMware.
It's a turnkey solution, which is good for customers, because they are buying into stability.
View full review »it_user1087275
Unit Manager & Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature in the VxRail solution is the software that binds the management portal and its ease of use of managing the environment. The guys don't have to worry about getting a multiple solutions specialist. You can have one person looking at and managing the whole environment.
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Eric Meiser
Senior Consultant at a tech services company
The most valuable feature is the quick installation. I build the system for the customer and then it is quick and easy to manage. The price is a little bit on the higher side but the system and management are so quick and easy that it's worth it for the customer.
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Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees
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.
The second valuable feature would be the space. Because they're all combined I save a lot of space when it comes to the rack. I was able to consolidate two racks into one and the one is only used in about half a rack. The storage and the VMware servers are all in the same infrastructure.
it_user990723
Data Center Engineer with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features are:
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Chris-Stanley
IT Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
ESRS: This gives us the confidence that when we are not monitoring our environment, then Dell Tech is, and can make us aware of any failures/pending issues before those issues impact us globally. We do not have the manpower to monitor 24/7, so this saves us significant costs on support contracts.
RecoverPoint: It give us peace of mind knowing any corruption or server issue can be rectified very quickly, making sure the business impact is minimal. It has also allowed us during our setup to failover an entire cluster. This is a significant improvement for our system availability.
Expansion: Our business is growing rapidly with new hotels being built and acquired. We need to scale our data centre quickly and easily. There is no in-depth config involved nor third-party needed, saving us time and money.
Support - fantastic! as we try to automate the business and the mundane processes , the support element with VXrail has helped us along this journey. We are having to make fewer calls chasing different Storage /Server / VMware / Network vendors , we now make 1 call!
it_user762255
Systems / Security Administrator with 51-200 employees
Its ease of administration is extremely valuable. It allows me to make better use of my time for other tasks instead of maintaining systems through multiple administration consoles.
View full review »it_user419235
Infrastructure Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
vSAN: It is the most valuable Software Defined Storage ever to manage all storage workloads, and also offers high availability.
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Rodney Barnhardt
Server\Storage Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Being able to perform upgrades and check the system through the VxRail Manager has been very helpful. It allows files to be uploaded, performs a pre-check against the system, then upgrades the appliance from the hardware up through the VMware environment.
View full review »reviewer1998144
Pre-Sales Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is very easy to manage. It is a software-defined storage. One person can manage the whole infrastructure instead of two to three people managing the servers and the storage. Manageability is the greatest advantage of the product. Our customer chose VxRail because of its manageability. The one-click update for everything is significant for simplifying IT operations. We don't have to upgrade our VMware and other systems separately. Everything is managed from a single console.
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