We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] 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."We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The technical support has been helpful. We are always able to get through to the right person."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"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 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."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The setup was very straightforward."
"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"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."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The scalability could use improvement."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."
"The pricing is pretty expensive."
"The initial setup of profiles and templates could be improved. Maybe some end profiles that you can use based on your type of deployment would be good."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"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."
"The solution must be more flexible."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"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."
"They should provide continuous support for data migration."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Dell PowerFlex is ranked 8th in HCI with 20 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". 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". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE SimpliVity.
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