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."The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"They offer top-tier support."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The solution was connected to alternate storage. It provides great scalability and reliability."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"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 quite stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"The program is stable."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"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."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"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."
"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 am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
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 "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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