Our company works with Dell as well as two or three other vendors. Since the technology has changed, various vendors have built high-availability features inside storage systems. Therefore, our company uses Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Huawei, and sometimes IP depending on the customer's wants and needs.

We did not evaluate any alternatives.

We were recommended by EMC to use this product for our dynamic environment where we do a lot of data migrations in and out.

We determined that no other products offered VPLEX Metro capabilities in 2012. The only possibility to implement Metro features without VPLEX is to use Symantec Volume Manager software, but this is a software solution, without cache options and with more licenses to purchase, and more deployments to implement. VPLEX Metro was the only solution for our targeted architecture.

We evaluated EMC RecoverPoint.

We evaluated IBM SVC.

At the time of the project, I was not aware of any similar product.

Due to the large number of models and different brands it is a very good solution to virtualize volumes.