We performed a comparison between Dell VxFlex 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."Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes can support what we call a heterogeneous environment. So you can have VMware workloads, Hyper-V workloads, bare metal Red Hat workloads, Kubernetes workloads all on the same cluster. You're not pigeonholed into either all bare metal or all virtualized. So it supports basically any platform."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"Very easy to implement in any existing environment."
"It helped us survive power outages in one of our data centers, then continued to function without a hitch."
"The technical support is good. We are always thankful for the technical support from VMware. They are very supportive when we have a technical problem."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"The most valuable features are Erasure Coding, Deduplication and Compression, and the advancement in stretching regarding replication."
"I like that we could choose whatever hardware we wanted, rather than having to use one particular vendor."
"It is simple to manage, very easy to implement and troubleshoot in case of any failures."
"The most valuable feature is that it is software-defined storage. Also, being able to do maintenance on the fly is a real benefit: migrating off, updating, and then moving the guest back on to the nodes."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"This is a great product."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there. A full-blown cloud foundation has a lot more to it."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"I would like to see more support for applications. I think currently it only supports applications between two vSAN clusters."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
"In a future release, they can bring in the object storage capabilities to this solution. Currently, there is not any compatibility."
"The server files are larger than before."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
"We often run out of space but we have enough capacity for memory and CPU. It's difficult to find the balance between storage and memory CPU."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
"The solution must provide better customization."
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Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 21st in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail and HPE Alletra dHCI, 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 VxFlex Ready Nodes vs. VMware vSAN report.
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