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Dell PowerFlex vs. SUSE Harvester

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dell PowerFlex
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Dell PowerFlex (formerly VxFlex) software-defined storage solutions aim to enable transformational agility for organizations looking to modernize their datacenter operations. The vendor states PowerFlex enables extreme flexibility, massive scalability, and enterprise-class performance and resiliency while simplifying infrastructure management and operations.N/A
SUSE Harvester
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Suse's Harvester is a cloud-native hyperconverged infrastructure. It is used to unify infrastructure workloads with Harvester and is designed to help operators consolidate and simplify their virtual machine workloads alongside Kubernetes clusters. Harvester is presented as a next generation of open-source hyperconverged infrastructure solutions designed for modern cloud-native environments. Suse Harvester is open source and free to use.N/A
Pricing
Dell PowerFlexSUSE Harvester
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Dell PowerFlexSUSE Harvester
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Dell PowerFlexSUSE Harvester
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Dell PowerFlexSUSE Harvester
Likelihood to Recommend
Dell Technologies
Definitely would recommend this unit or this family of units into most peoples organizations. Especially if you're starting fresh with a whole dedicated SAN and dont have to move a ton of data over to these (though that is possible, it is very messy). If you're moving from existing storage, then you will have to be prepared for some sore spots!
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SUSE
It's great for provisioning any kind of virtual servers, but for now, we use it to provision only servers for Rancher managed Kubernetes clusters. But we are considering to provision also virtual servers for all kinds of needs on SUSE Harvester in the near future, as it's getting more and more mature with every release.
Edgars Voroboks | TrustRadius Reviewer
Edgars Voroboks
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Pros
Dell Technologies
  • Gets all your (SAN) ducks in a row, and makes it easy with a single pane of glass
  • The usual good dell support if you're paying for the right support level
  • It can get expensive with options added but base price is pretty competitive
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SUSE
  • Fast to deploy new virtual machines
  • It's easy to use
  • Stable and ready for production
  • Free and open source
  • Has a strong community
Edgars Voroboks | TrustRadius Reviewer
Edgars Voroboks
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Cons
Dell Technologies
  • Costs are high, especially when having to replace multiple old SAN's with the one type
  • There is alot of down time when you have to push updates out to the units
  • Not sure we still have the full hang of all the functions as there's some pretty deep functions that are not explained well
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SUSE
  • It takes expertise to set up SUSE Harvester for production
  • You need to get used to SUSE Harvester to be as "fluent" as in VMWare ESXi
  • You need to well prepare for system upgrades
Edgars Voroboks | TrustRadius Reviewer
Edgars Voroboks
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Alternatives Considered
Dell Technologies
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SUSE
We used ESXi for years and were happy with it. Then we implemented Rancher managed Kubernetes clusters with nodes provisioned on VMware ESXi. Later, when SUSE Harvester came out, we started to provision SUSE Rancher nodes on Harvester. Both VMware ESXi and SUSE Harvester are great products, and I think - we are keeping both, at least for now, when SUSE Harvester is a young project.
Edgars Voroboks | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment
Dell Technologies
  • Money saved in having a bunch of other competing storage units
  • All kinds of time saved for our admins that have to deal with storage
  • The units look good and give you that futurey data center vibe!
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SUSE
  • We can provision more virtual servers
  • It's cheaper than competitor products (tbh - it's free, if you don't need support)
  • It's easy to manage when you get used to it
Edgars Voroboks | TrustRadius Reviewer
Edgars Voroboks
Senior Information Technology Specialist
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