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 IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"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 solution works well. It's very reliable."
"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."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"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."
"The ability to have a feature-rich software set which extends the capabilities of the back-end storage arrays."
"The scalability is very good. It can handle anywhere from very small to large enterprise class."
"One of the main features of Spectrum Virtualize is it virtualizes the servers from the storage. We have a very large infrastructure. A major advantage is when you get the aged storage arrays and you have to replace all of those."
"The SVC gives excellent performance with tiered storage behind it."
"Although the GUI from the XIV was used (in my view), IBM has polished and refined the GUI providing a pleasant and easy to navigate GUI experience."
"It provides transparency, because of its advanced copy features."
"It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."
"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."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"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."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The solution could have a better built-in performance monitor."
"They are actually working on one bug we found, which was with flash restore. This was the user interface design for virtual environments."
"Tighter integration with cloud storage might be useful as a target for a variety of use cases."
"In general, the migration is complicated. Though, it is case-by-case."
"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."
"I already discussed possible improvements with some of the guys from Hearnsley. One of our frustrations is when you go to expand volumes in a global mirror environment, you have to stop everything in order to expand. So that's one of the things."
"There are things that occur when you get to this size and capacity. We're very large, i.e., petabytes. When you get to that sheer volume of the numbers of things, it is too big for people to keep track of."
"Adding features for data deduplication is one area of improvement."
Dell VPLEX is ranked 2nd in Storage Management with 18 reviews while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 15th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 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, NetApp OnCommand and Huawei OceanStor DJ, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, IBM Spectrum Scale, DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
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