We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."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."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"They have very good support team who is very helpful. They will help you with every aspect of getting the deployment done."
"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."
"NetApp's XCP Migration Tool... was pretty awesome. It replicated the data faster than any other tool that I've seen. That was a big help."
"The main benefit we get from this product is the ability to deploy it anywhere we want, whether that's on-prem, a remote physical location, or in the cloud. It doesn't matter from an operational perspective where it is. The command line and operating system are the same."
"The stability has been really good."
"The fast recovery time objective with the ability to bring the environment back to production in case something happens."
"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."
"Snapshots are one valuable feature within ONTAP, but CVO's appeal is that it acts just like the on-prem solution. It's the same OS, but in the cloud. We can continue to use ONTAP as we did on-premise."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"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."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"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."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"I would like to see them improve the perspective of start and search in the panels. This would allow for better visualization of the contents that are captured in the tool."
"The automated deployment was a bit complex using the public APIs. When we had to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP on a regular basis using automation, It could be a bit of a challenge."
"Some of the licensing is a little kludgy. We just created an HA environment in Azure and their licensing for SVMs per node is a little kludgy. They're working on it right now."
"The solution is not stable when using single nodes. This is a problem. NetApp should work on this solution to make it more stable with HA nodes and resolve this issue."
"Cloud Volumes ONTAP's interface could use an overhaul. Sometimes you have to dig around in Cloud Manager a little bit to find certain things. The layout could be more intuitive."
"We are getting a warning alert about not being able to connect to Cloud Manager when we log into it. The support has provided links, but this particular issue is not fixed yet."
"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."
"There is room for improvement in tier one support, especially with potential language barriers and communication challenges."
Dell VPLEX is ranked 2nd in Storage Management with 18 reviews while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 1st in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 60 reviews. Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP 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 NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". Dell VPLEX is most compared with IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM SAN Volume Control, NetApp OnCommand and Huawei OceanStor DJ, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Portworx Enterprise.
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