Dell XC Appliance and VxRail compete in the hyper-converged infrastructure market. VxRail has a competitive edge due to its extensive feature set, appealing to those seeking advanced capabilities despite higher costs.
Features: Dell XC Appliance integrates seamlessly into existing IT environments, offers flexibility across various workloads, and does not require separate storage for different protocols. VxRail incorporates simplified system management, robust scalability, and enhanced security and resilience.
Room for Improvement: Dell XC Appliance could improve by offering more sophisticated management tools and better service integration. It may also benefit from enhanced security features and broader scalability options. VxRail could enhance its pricing model, streamline its complex configuration processes, and improve upfront cost insights.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VxRail features a streamlined, automated deployment model, including comprehensive customer service that supports varied integration. Dell XC's deployment is straightforward, offering adaptability but lacks the service engagement level of VxRail.
Pricing and ROI: Dell XC Appliance presents more competitive initial costs, appealing to budget-conscious enterprises, promising efficient ROI. VxRail requires a higher initial investment, justified by its feature-rich performance that offers long-term ROI.
XC Series hyper-converged appliances integrate Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge servers with Nutanix software to offer one of the industry’s most versatile and scalable hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platforms. By supporting a choice of hypervisors, XC Series appliances can be deployed quickly for all virtualized workloads to reduce management complexity and total cost of ownership.
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.
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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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