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, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Systems run solidly."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"The greatest disadvantage is the update process. Every patch or release update must be checked and deployed with the HPE solution, which sometimes is a little bit difficult. It is not difficult in terms of installation, but it is difficult to get the patches in time."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"Product doesn't scale."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"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."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 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 Rubrik, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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