We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Dell PowerFlex based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also then have to work with multiple vendors."
"We're doing a lot of VMware for IT so this solution is really valuable from a VMH point of view. We're trying to assist our customers mainly with management, because that's what they want. The most important aspects are ease of management, as well as ease of configuration, allowing them to attach additional nodes and resources for the applications."
"The most valuable feature is the overall integration and just seeing the three different layers which make up the machine software. Altogether, it's something that I would say is much better than any other solution that I have experienced before."
"The support team responds quickly."
"It has reduced downtime. Before, on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. But currently I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th in HCI while Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 19 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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