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."Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"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 user interface for this application is amazing."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"Software upgrades and scalability can be done during normal business hours with no downtime."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"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."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"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 most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"There may be issues around scaling."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"The solution wasn't able to connect to the cloud, and there's no micro-segmentation. The configuration of this solution is also complex."
"The product is expensive."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"The installation process could be simplified. It's a bit technical for non-IT users."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"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."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"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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