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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"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."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"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."
"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."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The solution is quite stable."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"They require more media visibility."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"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."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."
"The installation is complex."
"The solution must be more flexible."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 28th in HCI while Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th 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 Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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