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."The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"Up scaling is very possible, and at any time it is scalable."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"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."
"The product is expensive."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
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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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