VxRail and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes are competing hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. VxRail has the upper hand in overall performance and management, while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes stand out for flexibility and scalability.
Features: VxRail is known for seamless integration, automated lifecycle management, and enhanced efficiency. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes offer customizable configurations, a wide range of hardware options, and flexibility to meet varied business needs.
Room for Improvement: VxRail users point to the need for better documentation, more extensive support options, and improved resources. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes are noted for a complex setup process, a need for better direct vendor support, and a simpler installation method.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VxRail provides easier deployment with comprehensive pre-integrated solutions, resulting in faster time to value and higher customer service satisfaction due to consistent support. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes require more manual configuration, leading to longer deployment times and less consistent support experiences.
Pricing and ROI: VxRail offers competitive pricing with lower initial setup costs and a solid ROI. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes are pricier but justified by users for long-term scalability and performance benefits, delivering satisfactory ROI over time.
There is always room for improvement in terms of response time and reaching knowledgeable staff quickly.
There are limitations, such as the inability to upgrade from a single to dual CPU in certain configurations.
The product is very stable, and I rate its stability as nine out of ten.
A faster firmware lifecycle with the release of validated firmware catalogs more quickly would be a desired improvement.
It requires a very clean environment to proceed without issues.
As a group under Comcast, we receive very good pricing from Dell due to our considerable business dealings.
Previously, the cost was higher, however, recent changes in VMware pricing have reduced it.
The ability for single-team management without requiring a separate storage team for managing arrays and fiber channel switches is also a valuable feature.
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.
Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are pre-configured building blocks that reduce deployment
risks with certified configurations, improve storage efficiency by up to 50%1
, and can help
you build or scale your vSAN cluster faster.14 Whether you're just getting started, and/or
expanding your existing VMware environment, Dell EMC is here for you every step of the
way with consulting, education, deployment and support services for the entire solution.
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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