Name: Dell VxRail
Rating: 4.6 (235 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Dell VxRail?

Dell VxRail is a hyperconverged infrastructure software designed to simplify and streamline the deployment and management of virtualized environments. It integrates compute, storage, and virtualization resources, enabling businesses to consolidate workloads and manage operations through a single interface. The software automates key processes such as configuration, patching, and scaling, which helps organizations minimize manual intervention in IT operations. It supports various cloud platforms and provides tools for backup, recovery, and security, addressing requirements for data integrity and business continuity. Businesses use Dell VxRail software to support virtualization needs, optimize resource use, and solve challenges related to infrastructure complexity and scalability.

Overall experience with Dell VxRail

IT Associate

<50M USD, Healthcare and Biotech

FAVORABLE

“Strong VMware Integration in VxRail Offset by Expensive Fees and Restricted Scaling”

5.0

Dec 1, 2025

Over the past five-plus years, consistent usage of the Dell VxRail platform on-prem has delivered exceptional reliability and performance. It's hyperconverged infrastructure has simplified operations, reduced complexity, and ensured seamless scalability both up and down to meet our evolving business needs.

cybersecurity officer

250M - 500M USD, Banking

CRITICAL

“Strong VMware Integration, but Update Reliability and Licensing Costs are Growing Concerns”

3.0

Jul 9, 2025

My experience with Dell VxRail has been mixed. On the one hand, it offers flawless integration with VMware and centralized management that truly simplifies infrastructure provisioning and scaling, on the other hand, updates sometimes fail, requiring itensive tecnical support, and VMware acquisition by Broadcom has significantly increased licensing cost.

About Company

Company Description

Dell Technologies helps organizations build their digital futures and individuals transform how they work, live, and play. It provides customers with a broad solutions portfolio for the data era, including traditional infrastructure and extending to multicloud environments. Dell's integrated solutions help customers modernize their IT infrastructure, manage and operate in a multicloud world, address workforce transformation, and provide critical solutions that keep people and organizations connected. It helps customers accelerate their digital transformations to improve and strengthen business and workforce productivity. With an extensive portfolio and a commitment to innovation, Dell offers secure, integrated solutions that extend from the edge to the core to the cloud, and offers software-defined and cloud native infrastructure solutions.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1984

Head office location

Round Rock, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Annual Revenue

30B+ USD

Website

https://www.dell.com/

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VxRail's robust integration with VMware has enabled efficient virtualization the built-in automation and security features have enhanced operational resilience it has been a stable and high-performing foundation for our critical workloads

VxRail offers robust integration with VMware, as it's a fully validated appliance combining vSphere and vSAN, simplifying management and seamless across the scaling VMware ecosystem. Additionally, its centralized management and integration updates via VXRail Manager enable unified administration and single-package lifecycle upgrades.

Simple to manage

expensive pricing and licensing fees, which significantly increased our TCO compared to competitors dynamic scaling options are somewhat limited, making it harder to adapt to changing workloads VxRail is going away, and being replaced by Private Cloud

VxRail one-click updates are very problematic and require constant support from Dell. This has resulted in long wait times, especially since the post-Broadcom transition has made renewals confusing, expensive, and slow. Additionally, Broadcom's acquisition has eliminated VMware perpetual licenses, forcing costly VCF/VSF subscriptions that have doubled or tripled costs.

The Dell team to complete the initial install, Dell had to get in a third party!

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<50M USD

Healthcare and Biotech

Review Source

Strong VMware Integration in VxRail Offset by Expensive Fees and Restricted Scaling

MANAGER OF IT SERVICES

10B+ USD

Manufacturing

VxRail Offers Straightforward Management

Jan 8, 2026

Dell VxRail does what it says on the tin, and it just works. Simple to manage and deploy other nodes.

DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE & OPERATIONS

1B-10B USD

Vxrail Delivers Reliable Performance With Smooth Upgrades and Minimal Downtime

Aug 8, 2025

We replaced our prev solution with Dell Unity infrastructure with Dell Vxrail in early 2024. The implementation by Dell, was very straightforward and everything was up and running within a couple of weeks of getting delivered. Before we moved any production servers to the the Vxrail, we wanted to go through a firmware upgrade to make sure the "one button" upgrade worked as expected and there was no downtime. The "one button" upgrade worked perfectly, with no impact to the test systems that we had migrated to the environment. We have since gone through several upgrades with production servers running on the Vxrail without any operational impact. We had a Vxrail node have a hardware failure and the Vxrail migrated the workloads off the node and shut it down without any operational impact. Once the node was repaired, Vxrail balanced the workloads across all of the nodes without any operational impact. Overall, the Vxrail clusters have been incredibly reliable and resilient, resulting in no downtime due to the Vxrail.

System Engineer

50M-1B USD

Construction

VxRail Offers Consistent Performance and Reliability.

Jul 15, 2025

VXRail is an insanely good product. We've had our Vxrail for about 5 years and it has never seen any downtime, it performs like it should. It's easy to manage as it run Vmware. Dell also has other products that connect seamlessly like recoverpoint for VM to replicate you VM's to another Dell instance.

Banking