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Dell VxRail

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What is Dell VxRail?

The Dell VxRail is a VMWare-based hyper-converged infrastructure appliance.

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

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Nishanth AnbalaganView profile
Application Development Associate in Information Technology at Accenture (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

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

Cons

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

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype

VxRail, great product that continues to get better

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Verified User
Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

Nutanix and HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube)

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, VMware NSX, VMware Horizon View

VxRail two years in and still going..

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Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

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

Return on Investment

  • We did not measure ROI on the purchase.

Alternatives Considered

HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube) and HyperFlex

Other Software Used

Dell EMC Unity, Data Domain, Veeam Availability Suite, Trend Micro Endpoint Security, VMware ESXi, AirWatch, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series