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We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX, IBM Spectrum Control, and NetApp OnCommand Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract.""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."

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"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."

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"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."

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Cons
"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."
  • "VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."
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  • "It is pay for the amount of storage that you are monitoring. The more that we use the tool and like the tool, we may want to extend it to other storage platforms. This is just a matter of cost."
  • "We were already licensing Spectrum Control. This was one reasons why we went to Control rather than using the other product."
  • "The solution is reasonably priced."
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  • "Pricing by terabytes, not the end of the world, and that's okay. Stop if I want this, I have to buy that. Just release it as a single product."
  • "The cost: It is expensive as a solution. You need to be an expert to get anything out of it and we don't have that kind of expertise."
  • "For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."
  • "The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."
  • "We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."
  • "We just made a major investment back in May of this year, so we'll have it for another four and a half or five years easily. Thus, we have a five year bumper to bumper agreement."
  • "Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract.
    Top Answer:This is an enterprise solution so licensing costs are generally on the higher side. There will be additional costs if… more »
    Top Answer:Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure. Any EMX product, be it… more »
    Top Answer:The product keeps historical data for a very long time.
    Top Answer:The solution must support multi-vendor storage.
    Top Answer:The solution can be used for monitoring storage.
    Top Answer:OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications.
    Top Answer:Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four.
    Top Answer:OnCommand Insight is really limited compared to what Cloud Insights is doing. It lacks AI to protect against ransomware… more »
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    Overview
    Wth EMC VPLEX you can deploy next-generation virtualization architecture to enable simultaneous information access within, between, and across data centers, move applications, virtual machines, and data in and between data centers without impacting users and deliver application and data availability within the data center and over distance with full infrastructure utilization and zero downtime.

    IBM Spectrum Control is a comprehensive solution that can significantly improve monitoring, automation and analytics capabilities in multi-vendor storage environments. IBM Spectrum Control helps manage storage systems, software-defined storage, storage-area network (SAN) fabrics and devices. Storage can be seen from multiple perspectives, including departmental, application and server views. IBM Spectrum Control helps simplify provisioning, tier optimization, performance management and data replication processes.

    NetApp OnCommand Insight management software delivers consistent insight across your data center so you can monitor and manage your hybrid IT multivendor storage, compute, and switching infrastructures.

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    Healthcare Company25%
    Energy/Utilities Company13%
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    Government14%
    Financial Services Firm9%
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    Manufacturing Company13%
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    Computer Software Company19%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
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    Small Business6%
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