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 been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"Systems run solidly."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"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."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"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 GUI deserves a little love."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"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."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"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."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 6 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, 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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