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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"It is extremely stable."
"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 StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The support is highly responsive."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The most valuable feature is the overall integration and just seeing the three different layers which make up the machine software. Altogether, it's something that I would say is much better than any other solution that I have experienced before."
"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 solution is scalable."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"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."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"We're also running Hyper-V virtual machines. But we recently discovered that migration of the Hyper-V virtual machines is a bit challenging. Maybe if Dell EMC can come out with a tool that will make it very easy for us to migrate the Microsoft Hyper-V machine, that may be an improvement."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"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."
Earn 20 points
Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 29th in HCI while Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0. 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 PowerFlex writes "Is very resilient and protects our data, but the solution is complex". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE SimpliVity.
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