We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and IBM Spectrum Virtualize based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, IBM, NetApp and others in Storage Management."The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"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."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"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."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"It's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."
"It lowers cost. It does so by getting more efficient use out of the technology behind it."
"When we add storage behind it, the product is good for the customers because their customers do not notice that anything is happening due to the virtualization."
"I like that it can virtualize more than three hundred storage providers."
"The SVC gives excellent performance with tiered storage behind it."
"It is a single pane of glass management interface, so once the storage is allocated to SVC, they only have one place to go to manage it for everything."
"The scalability is very good. It can handle anywhere from very small to large enterprise class."
"The abstraction flair and the abstraction layer. We had a mixture of different storage arrays, and the wonderful thing about SVC is is that it normalizes all it into a single driver. A single view that all hosts see simultaneously."
"The initial setup is complex."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"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."
"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."
"For improvement considerations, I would probably say multiple sites."
"The Storwize port is not so stable."
"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."
"In general, the migration is complicated. Though, it is case-by-case."
"The only errors I find sometimes is the solution tells me I cannot operate it because a service has turned off, you can just go back to the VM, go to services, and turn back the services. However, this should improve."
"I would like to see more baseline replication and integration with the operating system between Vmware and IBMI."
"There are big arrays now, and if a customer wants add more disks to it, you have to have another array. Adding disks to existing arrays is one of the most demanded things from our customers."
"The solution could have a better built-in performance monitor."
Dell VPLEX is ranked 1st in Storage Management with 4 reviews while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 2 reviews. Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell VPLEX writes "It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "A highly scalable product that is relatively easy to use and set up". Dell VPLEX is most compared with IBM SAN Volume Control and NetApp OnCommand, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale, DataCore SANsymphony and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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