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 allows me to configure High Availability and failover clustering with some fault tolerance, at a cost point that doesn’t break the bank for a small business budget."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"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."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"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."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The HCI concept by itself is the most valuable feature of the solution. It is a full-fledged HCI. It is the main component. I think this is what makes the project valuable."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"Having one management console to do everything from was a great improvement over dealing with separate hardware for servers, SANs, backups etc."
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"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."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"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."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"Its performance can be faster."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
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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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