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."StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"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 most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"The ease of managing this system."
"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."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"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."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"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."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"The ease of new deployments could be improved."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"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."
"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 HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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