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."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"
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"Systems run solidly."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"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."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"Upgrading the firmware/software could be more seamless."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
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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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