Dell PowerFlex and VxRail are hyper-converged solutions competing in the IT infrastructure category. PowerFlex offers an advantage with comprehensive integration and high application performance, while VxRail excels in VMware integration and ease of management.
Features: Dell PowerFlex integrates storage, compute, and network effectively, ensuring stability and high application performance. It provides extensive storage capacity and scalability, reducing latency and optimizing Microsoft SQL licenses. VxRail stands out with seamless VMware integration, ease of deployment, and management simplicity through built-in automation tools, lifecycle management, and centralized control.
Room for Improvement: Dell PowerFlex could improve in flexibility and compatibility with limited Hyper-V support and complex upgrade processes. Users seek enhanced monitoring tools and easier migration options. VxRail could benefit from better pricing, reduced vendor lock-in, and simpler upgrade processes, with users desiring improved integration with other systems and more configuration flexibility.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both Dell PowerFlex and VxRail are manageable on-premises solutions. Customers commend Dell PowerFlex for solid technical support, though some express concerns about responsiveness. VxRail receives mixed reviews; some users appreciate the support package, whereas others note service agility needs improvement. Dell's global technical support enhances the appeal of both solutions.
Pricing and ROI: Dell PowerFlex is considered well-priced for its value, reducing SQL licensing costs and featuring bundled support, which lowers long-term expenses. VxRail is seen as expensive, yet offers good value for enterprise customers. However, pricing and licensing complexity could be improved for smaller businesses. Both solutions show ROI through operational efficiency and cost reductions.
We do not have local Dell technical support.
A key area for improvement for VMware would be response time.
The support is all provided by Dell, and it is quite good.
There are limitations, such as the inability to upgrade from a single to dual CPU in certain configurations.
The scalability is excellent.
It is a very stable and mature product, with centralized management and upgrades being perfect for us.
The product is very stable, and I rate its stability as nine out of ten.
They could have more AI functionality in the future.
It requires a very clean environment to proceed without issues.
Stabilizing the update procedure further would make it better.
The major issue with VxRail is the razoring process, which can only be performed by Dell.
The cost varies for us as a large company because we receive special offers from Dell.
Purchasing VxRail is quite expensive compared to a simple Dell server.
Previously, the cost was higher, however, recent changes in VMware pricing have reduced it.
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.
Another benefit is the fully automated upgrade process, which is completed with just one click through the VxRail Manager.
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.
VxRack System consists of hyper-converged rack-scale engineered systems, with integrated networking, to achieve the scalability and management requirements of traditional and cloud native workloads. The VxRack series is purposely designed to enable customers to quickly deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and/or Private Cloud architectures. VxRack Systems tightly integrate hardware with software and management layers.
The result is a fully tested, pre-configured, hyper-converged system with simplified operations at data center and Service Provider scale. VxRack Systems support the deployment of a variety of application workloads, allowing IT to rapidly deliver new services while improving overall agility and efficiency.
VxRail is a hyper-converged appliance based on VMware virtual SAN Software and is jointly engineered and built with VMware, for VMware, to enhance Vmware. VxRail software-defined architecture simplifies compute, storage, virtualization, and management. It will safeguard performance, reliability, and flexibility across your organization with a broad range of workloads and applications from business-critical to next-gen. With VxRail, you are covered.
VxRail is a single turn-key appliance that is a validated, fully integrated, pre-configured, pre-tested solution and offers non-disruptive scaling. Every node includes compute storage and IO. All-flash configurations can contain between 12-28 cores per node. The storage capacity options run from 7.6 TB to 19TB with either 256 GB or 512GB of memory. Hybrid appliances may have 6-20 cores per node, 3.6 TB to 10 TB of storage capacity, and 24GB to 256 GB of memory.
VxRail offers high availability fail-over, an active/active stretch cluster, and VSan Kernal integration. VxRail is a power-edged server with APIs built on automation. There are over 15 million different combinations of hardware available with VxRail. VxRail provides a simple, cost-effective solution that solves a large range of use cases. Additionally, you also get a mixed workloads automated system that is backed with fully automated system updates, and complete end-to-end lifecycle management all in a single two-rack appliance.
VxRail is a value-added suitable solution for distributed small to mid-sized enterprises, remote offices, private clouds, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). You choose the deployment option that best suits your organizational needs, from appliance to integrated rack offerings, with or without networking, and it will be delivered to you, ready to deploy out-of-box.
If you know VMware, you know VxRail.
VxRail Features and Benefits
Reviews from Real Users
VxRail is an all-in-one solution: "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."
VxRail is remarkable: “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…”
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