We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and HPE Hyper Converged based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"Starwind support is excellent. They are very fast and have very good knowledge of Starwind and Hyper-V Cluster software."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"Reasonably priced and easy to manage for small to medium size companies that don't have an IT department."
"There are multiple advantages. Typically, being an all-flash storage, which is available through either SimpliVity or dHCI, the performance is much better because the IOPS goes high, so it's more powerful in terms of performance. Secondly, if I'm talking of SimpliVity Hyper Convergence solution from HPE, unlike the competition, even if three hard drives fail, you are still running the solution."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"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."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"The installation is complex."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"This solution is very costly."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
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Dell PowerFlex is ranked 13th in HCI with 4 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 6 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 7.8, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Stable with good technical support and the capability to scale". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes "High performance that gives an advantage over traditional virtualization". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Rubrik. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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