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."Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"It's quite easy to install."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"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 component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"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."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"Systems run solidly."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"The documentation could be better."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"The technical support is weak. It is a layered product. It has a software solution on top of the SimpliVity solution, which is built on top of the hardware of the HPE DL380s. When we call for a problem that we know is related to the DL380, we get a SimpliVity guy trying to solve a SimpliVity problem. If it is not a SimpliVity problem, it's a hardware problem. So, it takes awhile for them to figure out which part of the organization should really be helping us."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"Needs to improve the cloud integration, such as Azure and AWS."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"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."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 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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