We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity 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."Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"The price was right."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"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."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"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."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"The program is stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"The storage efficiency is valuable."
"I find the replication feature valuable."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"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."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"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 storage capability must be improved."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 19 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. HPE SimpliVity report.
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