We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and HPE StoreVirtual based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"It's quite easy to install."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."
"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."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The support is highly responsive."
"The support team responds quickly."
"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 solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"All of the administrative tasks are easy and everything is centralized."
"The seamlessness behind the scenes of block management."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"The solution is very stable."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"They require more media visibility."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"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."
"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."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"The solution needs to offer more documentation and educational materials."
"The biggest issue with the solution is that it doesn't support Hyper V. It's a big problem."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The solution needs to ensure it is on par with the industry in terms of availability of features and various other options."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"User interface could be improved."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while HPE StoreVirtual 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 StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and HPE SimpliVity, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and DataCore SANsymphony.
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