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."Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The HCI concept by itself is the most valuable feature of the solution. It is a full-fledged HCI. It is the main component. I think this is what makes the project valuable."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"In terms of HPE SimpliVity's most valuable features, its backup integration is a good thing. Its performance is very good as is the whole integration."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"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."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"The documentation could be better."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"The fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
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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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