We performed a comparison between Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's quite easy to install."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"You don't have to spend much time evaluating the hardware. It can be deployed in a short time. The tool is also easy to upgrade."
"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."
"It is easy to install."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"Provides good performance as well as integration with deployment tools."
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"We can scale it very easily for a test environment. We were able to segment our DMZ so it wasn't connected to anything, which we really liked."
"You get the benefit of local storage, but you have the protection of shared storage."
"Easy-to-use, and easy-to-scale product."
"The implementation is simple, it was very straightforward. It took us approximately three weeks because it was installed in four locations."
"Its ease of use is most valuable. It is easy to configure, and there is a unified interface, which makes things slightly easier."
"High availability is a valuable aspect of this solution."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes must be flexible since it is complex in designing concepts. It needs to improve stability. The product should integrate with the public cloud."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. The price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could be lowered."
"The power switch on the hardware is located in a poor location where it can accidentally be pushed. In an update, they should solve this issue so people do not push it accidentally to have their service go down. A possible solution is the switch should be inside."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."
"Better options would be clustered nodes, or even cloud configuration. There is room for improvement in cloud configuration, we typically do web browsing for management."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
"It is a memory intensive app."
"I am looking for more of a software-defined storage platform that uses different protocols, such as iSCSI, NFS, and CIS, and maybe also has an object as part of that. They should 100% make it more of a storage-based product where it is not linked just to VMware, and it also has NFS and iSCSI built-in at a scalable level. They should turn it more into a dedicated storage-as-a-service platform instead of just being built into the VMware kernel. Their level one and level two support is not at all good, and it should be improved."
"A vSAN cluster must have compression and deduplication to be an all-flash array, but it's not supported with a hybrid array. Deduplication and compression work better with an all-flash array, so I think that VMware should give customers the option to activate and support this feature for hybrid arrays. Other products like Nutanix support this."
"They should provide Deduplication and Compression over the hybrid drives."
"In a future release, they can bring in the object storage capabilities to this solution. Currently, there is not any compatibility."
"The pricing could be better when it comes to renewing the licenses."
Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 11th in HCI with 14 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Dell vSAN Ready Nodes vs. VMware vSAN report.
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