We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and IBM Spectrum Virtualize based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"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 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."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"The abstraction flair and the abstraction layer. We had a mixture of different storage arrays, and the wonderful thing about SVC is is that it normalizes all it into a single driver. A single view that all hosts see simultaneously."
"Compared to other storage vendors, the solution is quite convenient to use."
"Migration from configurations where servers have storage provisioned from older SAN disk systems to newer storage systems is almost seamless using image mode migration techniques, with only a short outage of the servers."
"I like that it can virtualize more than three hundred storage providers."
"Although the GUI from the XIV was used (in my view), IBM has polished and refined the GUI providing a pleasant and easy to navigate GUI experience."
"We are happy with the support that IBM provides us."
"It lowers cost. It does so by getting more efficient use out of the technology behind it."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity of use, the flexibility, and the options included. I mean, it's just a big time saver."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"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."
"Anything which improves performance and the ability of our systems would be a nice."
"I hate I/O groups. If you start swapping I/O groups, they can be potentially risky. If they could get rid of the whole I/O group principle, the risk is not there anymore. I understand the fundamental thing about I/O groups, but they are risky."
"The Storwize port is not so stable."
"They are actually working on one bug we found, which was with flash restore. This was the user interface design for virtual environments."
"The disk reliability is not that good."
"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."
"I already discussed possible improvements with some of the guys from Hearnsley. One of our frustrations is when you go to expand volumes in a global mirror environment, you have to stop everything in order to expand. So that's one of the things."
"In general, the migration is complicated. Though, it is case-by-case."
Dell VPLEX is ranked 2nd in Storage Management with 18 reviews while IBM Spectrum Virtualize is ranked 14th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 36 reviews. Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Virtualize 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 IBM Spectrum Virtualize writes "A highly scalable product that is relatively easy to use and set up". Dell VPLEX is most compared with IBM SAN Volume Control, NetApp OnCommand and Huawei OceanStor DJ, whereas IBM Spectrum Virtualize is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale, DataCore SANsymphony and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
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