We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Scale Computing HC3 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."The ROI is great on this product."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"The solution is scalable."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"The program is stable."
"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 solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The solution is scalable."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"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."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"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."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"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."
"The installation is complex."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"The product could use a better control center."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 19th in HCI with 8 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0, while Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.8. 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 Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, whereas Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. Scale Computing HC3 report.
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