We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and HPE Hyper Converged 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."We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"The program is stable."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature is high availability."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"Hyper Converge is easier to manage and performs better than traditional infrastructure."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution has many good features."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"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."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"The installation is complex."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"Including instrumentation would be a helpful improvement."
"Compared to similar solutions, Dell PowerFlex is not cost-effective and has room for improvement."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"We've had to do a power cycle to bring it all the way down, bring it back up for power outages, A/C shut-downs of our DC office, but it hasn't presented a problem."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"The solution would be better served if it integrated with other solutions better."
"The solution is not very stable."
"The software version on the HC380s we are using is version 1. It does not support spanned vCenter which we use since we have multiple sites."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. 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 Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Alletra dHCI and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. See our Dell PowerFlex vs. HPE Hyper Converged report.
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