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 most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"The support team responds quickly."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The resiliency and data protection are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"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 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 product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"They need to work on improving the overhead for protecting the data."
"The initial deployment was complicated and required a lot of data nodes, IPs, internal vLANs, data vLANs, and many other things."
"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."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"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."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
"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."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 22 reviews while Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 16th in HCI with 8 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, 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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