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."One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The product creates opportunities with hybrid on-premise solutions."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"It is easy to set up."
"Systems run solidly."
"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."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"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 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."
"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."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"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."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"The initial setup is not that easy."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"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."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"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."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 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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