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."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 installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"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."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The support is highly responsive."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The resiliency and data protection are the most valuable features."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"The installation is complex."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."
Earn 20 points
Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 27th 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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