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Top 10 Dell XC Series Alternatives & Competitors

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Explore the best alternatives to Dell XC for users who need new software features or want to try different solutions. Other important factors to consider when researching alternatives to Dell XC include ease of use and reliability. The best overall Dell XC alternative is Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). Other similar apps like Dell XC are Scale Computing Platform, VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance. Dell XC alternatives can be found in Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions .

Best Paid & Free Alternatives to Dell XC

  • Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)
  • Scale Computing Platform
  • VMware vSAN

Top 10 Alternatives to Dell XC Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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  1. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)

    (270)4.6 out of 5
  2. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) combines feature-rich software-defined storage with built-in virtualization in a turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure solution that can run any application at any scale.

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  3. Scale Computing Platform

    (184)4.8 out of 5
  4. Scale Computing is a global business with offices around the world, thousands of customers, and countless applications now running on Scale Computing Platform. Strategic partners include market leaders such as Google, Intel, APC Schneider, Lenovo, NEC, BCDVideo, and others. Some of the largest organizations in the world trust SC//Platform to run critical infrastructure, such as Hilton Hotels, Steel Dynamics, Farm Bureau Insurance, McDonald’s, Sumitomo Corporation, Delhaize, Holiday Inn, Air Liquide, and many others.

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  5. VMware vSAN

    (169)4.4 out of 5
  6. VMware vSAN is a software-defined, enterprise storage solution powering industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure systems.

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  7. StarWind Virtual SAN

    (161)4.8 out of 5
  8. StarWind Virtual SAN eliminates any need in physical shared storage by simply mirroring internal hard disks and flash between hypervisor servers. It reduces virtualization expenses (both capital and operational) by utilizing hardware resources for the same workload.

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  9. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance

    (65)4.8 out of 5
  10. StarWind HCA is a 100% software-defined hyperconverged platform built with Dell® OEM or StarWind-branded server platform. HCA ProActive Premium Support monitors the cluster 24/7, predicts failures and reacts to them before things go South.

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  11. StorMagic

    (64)4.7 out of 5
  12. StorMagic is simple hyperconverged storage used to eliminate downtime. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and boasts users among thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. SvSAN is a lightweight solution that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized businesses and edge computing environments such as retail stores, manufacturing plants and even oil rigs at sea. SvSAN provides organizations with a simple, 'set and forget' solution that enables lightweight high availability as a virtual SAN (VSAN) with a witness VM that can be local, in the cloud, or as-a-service, and support up to 1,000 2-node clusters. It provides a low barrier to entry with capacity-based licensing and minimal hardware requirements, allowing organizations to use existing equipment. Plus, any IT professional can deploy and manage 1,000 sites as easily as 1, with automation tools and scripts. SvSAN gives organizations choice and control by allowing configurations of any x86 server models and storage types, even mixed within a cluster, while vSphere, Hyper-V or KVM hypervisors can be used. It is built to perform, with code that eliminates performance bottlenecks and caching features to boost performance and prevent over-provisioning. SvSAN accommodates future growth and technologies too, with support for containers and VMs, and allows compute and storage to be scaled easily and independently. SvSAN's additional features help to deliver 100% uptime with synchronous mirroring and no single point of failure, even with poor, unreliable networks, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades. Disaster protection is provided with capability for stretched clusters that reduce risk, plus extensive integrations with backup and DR providers and the option to add a third node to clusters. SvSAN also ensures data security with FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption, software RAID options and the elimination of split-brain risk.

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  13. VxRail

    (41)4.3 out of 5
  14. As the only fully integrated, preconfigured, and pre-tested VMware hyper-converged infrastructure appliance family on the market, VxRail dramatically simplifies IT operations, accelerates time to market, and delivers incredible return on investment.

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  15. Huawei FusionCube Hyper-converged Infrastructure

    (39)4.3 out of 5
  16. The Huawei FusionCube hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) brings compute, storage, network, virtualization, and management into one tightly integrated package to achieve high performance, low latency, and rapid deployment. FusionCube leverages Huawei-proprietary built-in distributed storage engines to enable deep convergence of compute and storage, eliminating performance bottlenecks while allowing for flexible capacity expansion.

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  17. HPE SimpliVity

    (23)4.4 out of 5
  18. The HPE SimpliVity 380 gives IT leaders the agility and economics of the cloud with the control and governance of on-premises IT.

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  19. NetApp HCI

    (23)4.4 out of 5
  20. Transform your IT infrastructure with the enterprise-scale hyper converged infrastructure solution from NetApp. Run multiple applications with guaranteed performance to confidently deploy NetApp HCI across your entire data center.

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