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."We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"It doesn't take long to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it. That's one of the things that I like about SimpliVity's deduplication and compression. I can literally stand up a backup in minutes. It is like no time at all. They've got pretty phenomenal deduplication and compression. Within SimpliVity, one of the things that they do is deduplication and compression on ingestion. So, on the front side, everything is deduplicated and compressed, which, of course, adds some overhead to their solution. For instance, in my environment today, I've got roughly 30 terabytes of raw storage, and with their deduplication and compression, I'm over the 300 terabyte threshold with my active servers and all my backups."
"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."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"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."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"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."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"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."
"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."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
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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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