Name: Dell VxRail
Rating: 9.4 (14 reviews)
Author: Dell Technologies

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Online Proctoring Software

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Collaboration

Enterprise Generative AI

Knowledge Management

Partner Relationship Management

Enterprise

Accounting

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Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Job Board

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Time Tracking

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Browser

Cloud Cost Management

Cloud Management

Cloud Storage

Consulting and Advisory Services

Data Center Virtualization

Data Warehouse

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection

Embedded Business Intelligence (BI)

Enterprise Architecture Management

Enterprise Service Bus

Fraud Detection

Function as a Service (FaaS)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

MLOps

Mobile Data Security

Mobile Identity

Monolithic Frame-based Disk Arrays

Network Performance Monitoring

Release Management

Secure Email Gateway

Tower Servers

Information Technology

A/B Testing

AI Writing Assistant Software

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

App Store Optimization (ASO)

Appointment Scheduling

Competitive Intelligence

Content Management

Email Marketing

Event Registration

Heatmap and Session Recording

Marketing Analytics

Marketing Automation

Mobile Advertising

Online Proofing

Social Media Management

Social Media Marketing

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Call Recording

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Lead Generation Services

Product Configuration

Quote to Cash

Sales

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management

Identity Threat Detection & Response Software

Virtualization Security

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Commercial Drone

Construction Workforce Management

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Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) VxRail demo: cluster shutdown automation

Likelihood to Recommend

Since 1984, Dell has played a critical role in enabling more affordable and accessible technology around the world. As an end-to-end computing solutions company, Dell continues to transform computing and provide high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.

We serve customers ranging from the world's largest businesses and public-sector organizations, to small and medium businesses, and individual consumers. We are deeply committed to serving our community, and the company has also received numerous accolades ranging from employer of choice to energy conservation awards.

At Dell, we promote an environment that is rooted in the entrepreneurial spirit in which the company was founded. This means fostering an open approach to technology innovation that delivers effective solutions for all customer challenges. We believe technology is essential for human success and that it should be accessible to everyone.

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Release cycle

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Initial installation

Improvement needed

Easy to install

Impossible to get

Software and hardware

Upgrade process

Users can get

Helpful and friendly

Reduced the amount

Virtual machines

Major issues

Support is one

Performance tuning

Highly reliable

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We were looking for a solution that supports a hybrid cloud platform, so Dell EMC VxRail comes as a solution to achieve our requirements. It provides the support of integrating applications with existing infrastructure. As VxRail is an Hyperconverged Infrastructure solution that can deploy both in the cloud as well as on-premises. It comes as a single package, as it has networking, data centers, and hardware resources all in one place. So we can reduce the cost spending to buy different components.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Configuration Flexibility.
Integrating with existing hyper-converged Infrastructure environment.
Automating the IT operations.

Things done well

Storage to Non-Cluster servers feature has to be enabled.
Improvement needed on hypervisor license and appliance.
Sometimes facing issues while accessing Citrix VDIs.

Things done poorly

As Dell EMC VxRail comes as pre-built, the deployment process is simple and easy. It is possible to scale out easily and will get support from the vendor instantly. As it is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure and it is also the integration of Dell EMC hardware and Vmware, the flexibility that VxRail provides is effective. An organization that is looking for all in one place like data management, network management, Integration, and backup software ecosystem can go for this product.

We were able to exponentially reduce the cost spending to buy different components.
As it has VMWare integration, possible to work on different operating systems.
Automation of IT operations helped the colleagues to work on different manual tasks.

Return on Investment

Other Software Used

Application Development Associate

Dell EMC VxRail 2022-03-04 21:29:52

VMware Horizon

VMware NSX

We use VxRail to support our VMware Horizon VDI environment. This supports all users in all lines of business throughout the company. We replaced a much older traditional infrastructure and knew going in that we wanted HCI. Because we were going to use VMware Horizon, the decision to go with VxRail was a natural fit.

VxRail gives us a standard, predictable, unit of scale and purchase.
Infrastructure maintenance and upgrades are much easier than on a traditional infrastructure stack.
Performance tuning is much easier and more straightforward than on a traditional infrastructure stack

Initial installation services leave a lot to be desired. We struggled to get the first units in service. Subsequent units were very easy to install though...
Dell/EMC has an A/B maintenance cycle for updates. Make sure ALL of your units are on the same cycle. It is difficult (but not quite impossible) to get them changes after installation
I would like to see a sub $100k offering for branch offices.

VxRail is very well suited to large-scale homogeneous workloads, VDI being the prime example. Anywhere you have a large number of VMs that are doing the same thing, VxRail is a good fit. If you have workloads that are greatly varied, VxRail should not be your first choice.

VxRail has made our VDI deployment easy to scale and (more importantly), made scaling the environment easy to justify to management.
When comparing to other similar solutions, the tight integration with Vmware code releases made VxRail much more stable. We have had much less downtime from the VxRail infrastructure than in our traditional infrastructure stacks.

All of these solutions scored very close together in our testing. Nutanix actually was the highest scoring in ease-of-use, but the integration with Vmware and the pricepoint led us to choose VxRail.

Nutanix and HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube)

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VxRail is in use at the college for all types of workloads. It has handled MSSQL, IIS, Exchange, File Storage, and other workloads. The VxRail is used across the whole organization for all major/minor services and workloads. The VxRail was put into place to remove an aging traditional server/storage deployment. The issues resolved included latency, storage and compute capacity and expandability.

Stability, the platform has not had any major issues or minor issues since deployment.
Management, the VxRail platform has a single plane of glass for management.
Scaling, VxRail is easily scaled for more resources.

The software release cycle is slow compared to general release of software. Particularly with VMware based releases.

For general workloads the VxRail is a beast.  For our deployments, we did not see any scenarios where it was not appropriate.

VxRail 2018-09-13 12:52:03

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Dell VxRail

Overview

What is Dell VxRail?

Dell EMC VxRail - "Modern HCI Data center with automation and Solution Integration"

VxRail, great product that continues to get better

VxRail two years in and still going..

Product Demos

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) VxRail demo: cluster shutdown automation

Product Details

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