We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and NetApp HCI [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The support is highly responsive."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The program is stable."
"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."
"The support team responds quickly."
"NetApp HCI is a stable solution."
"It is a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute."
"It allows me to move a VM set and require extra performance. I can easily move them onto it and have it just run."
"Our goal with NetApp HCI is to have no single point of failure."
"HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth."
"The solution integrates well with all the other applications that we use on our environment."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the convergence."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"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."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also 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."
"It is easy to install now, but could potentially be even simpler."
"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
"The networking needs improvement."
"The vCenter keeps crashing, meaning that there is no stability in our environment."
"I would like to have the ability to replicate to multiple sites."
"I would like to see the implementation process improved."
"It would be great if they took something like kernel storage and integrated straight into the NetApp as well."
"The fact that it doesn't have all the data points we need and all the historical data that I would like. I find that a lot of the performance analysis is done through support, where they have something that we don't have. It would be nice just to have all that on-prem."
Earn 20 points
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews while NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0, while NetApp HCI [EOL] 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 NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE SimpliVity, whereas NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with .
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