We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Vblock [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"It has been performing well. It was more than what we expected."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"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."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"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."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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