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."Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"What I like about the solution, is that SimpliVity is easy to deploy and maintain. It's really performing very well. The ratio of price to performance is really good."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"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."
"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."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
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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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