We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series 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."StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"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."
"The support is highly responsive."
"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."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The solution is scalable."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"The integration with AWS is a valuable feature."
"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."
"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."
"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."
"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"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."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"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."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"The storage capability must 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."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."
"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."
"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."
Earn 20 points
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is ranked 23rd in HCI. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0, while Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is rated 8.0. 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 Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series writes "Allows for centralized management with great interconnectivity". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, VMware vSAN and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series report.
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