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."Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The price was right."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"For those basic uses, it's simple to set up and manage, and it seems to do a fine job."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"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 most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The support team responds quickly."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"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."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"The solution has many good features."
"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."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"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."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"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."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Is very resilient and protects our data, but the solution is complex". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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