We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX, IBM Spectrum Control, and NetApp OnCommand Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility."
"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"The installation was very easy. You just install an agent on a server, and you give that agent access to your storage device, then it just collects the data. It took five minutes to set up."
"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
"The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item they choose."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use. The ability to get into a storage device and look at whatever you are trying to look at as far as performance, then obtain the reports that you need to do your analytical work."
"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."
"The product keeps historical data for a very long time."
"Scalability: If you're from a large enterprise, it's easy for us to go into customer environments and pull the data out. It's very security-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the reports, the complete analysis of the data. We also like the scalability, since it can work with Hitachi, Isilon, etc."
"This gives me better performance numbers and gives me more information about where my loopholes are, where I need to target my customers, where I need to go back and retain storage."
"Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."
"I am very happy with the stability. When your customers don't notice anything wrong, that's the biggest win for a product."
"The machine learning features help me troubleshoot faster."
"It gives us the ability to look at our storage and figure out what we are doing with it. Without it, we are sort of blind."
"The initial setup is complex."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
"The pain points were, and may still continue to be, the fact that there are multiple components of the product which are installed, you might say, somewhat individually."
"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"The initial setup for IBM Spectrum Control is a bit complicated. They should also make it easier to integrate and use the Cosmos Analytics tool, which is very complicated."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"The database could be improved so that the complexity of installation could be easier. We would also like to have more granularity in the profiles and products for users. We would like to link the users to the tool to managers or auditors."
"OnCommand Insight lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally."
"I would like them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""
"I would like to see better graphics. We have seen regular graphs and pie graphs. I am sure that there are better ways to show this information."
"The UI: They have been growing and changing. There's been some growing pains with that, but they are moving into the new HTML5 interface, which is fantastic."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"You can build those out, but initially when you bring up the dashboard, that was one thing they couldn't take away. They couldn't change that. It just looks kind of kludgy. I'd like it to look a lot more clean when I first login."
"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."
"The initial setup is complex. There is a lot of stuff to set up. I had to teach my guys a lot of things, so there was a lot of learning."