We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"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."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes can support what we call a heterogeneous environment. So you can have VMware workloads, Hyper-V workloads, bare metal Red Hat workloads, Kubernetes workloads all on the same cluster. You're not pigeonholed into either all bare metal or all virtualized. So it supports basically any platform."
"The most valuable features of Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes are the ease of acquisition."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"From a technical perspective, it's a pretty rock solid solution. I would say the only area for improvement is around its price."
"Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is a little less sophisticated than some of the other solutions out there. A full-blown cloud foundation has a lot more to it."
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Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 28th in HCI while Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is ranked 20th in HCI. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is rated 9.0. 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 VxFlex Ready Nodes writes "Single platform for a mix of virtualized and physical workloads". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Dell VxFlex Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, HPE Alletra dHCI, VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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