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 features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"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."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"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."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"We can get backups faster. We have a smaller footprint for hardware, which takes up less space. So, we use less electricity and floor space."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"Systems run solidly."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"The product is expensive."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
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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 HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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