We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Springpath [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"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 program is stable."
"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."
"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."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"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."
"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."
"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."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
Earn 20 points
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 9th in HCI with 19 reviews while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. 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 Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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