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 ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."
"The resiliency and data protection are the most valuable features."
"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."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"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 program is stable."
"The solution is quite stable."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"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."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
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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