We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"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 gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"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 solution is quite stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The solution is very stable."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"A very flexible solution."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"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."
"Exporting data from the dashboard is not very user-friendly. It's just designed in a way that it's going to cover let's say 90%, 80%, of the end-users needs. If you need more sophisticated reporting it's not easy to have."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"The installation is complex."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"It is a costly solution."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"User interface could be improved."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and DataCore SANsymphony.
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