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 biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"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."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"The setup is very easy."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"The most valuable feature for us is its integration, as it provides an entire solution in a single box."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Systems run solidly."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"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."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Upgrading the firmware/software could be more seamless."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"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."
"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."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
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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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