Dell VPLEX vs IBM Spectrum Control comparison

Dell Technologies and IBM are both solutions in the Storage Management category. Dell Technologies is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.0, while IBM is ranked #6. Dell Technologies holds a 4.8% mindshare in SM, compared to IBM’s 5.2% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Dell VPLEX

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88% willing to recommend

IBM Spectrum Control

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87% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and IBM Spectrum Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell VPLEX

Ranking in Storage Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Spectrum Control

Ranking in Storage Management

6th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Dell VPLEX is 4.8%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Spectrum Control is 5.2%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Storage Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dell VPLEX	4.8%
IBM Spectrum Control	5.2%
Other	90.0%

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Sayed Zuber

Sr. Storage And Backup Engineer at OMNIdata Trading, Lda.

It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners

Dell VPLEX currently requires Flash Player to access the GUI. It would be better to have a web-based HTML management interface. The encryption could also be improved. When the host writes data, it goes from VPLEX back to the physical storage. The physical storage device will do encryption or use an algorithm called Data Address Encryption. If there are vulnerabilities between the host and the storage device, you can lose your data. I suggest encrypting the data before it is sent from the host to the storage. I would also recommend using the NVM protocol in VPLEX. It still has Flash Player and a local SATA disk built into the Flash Player. You need to Flash the disk to SAS and then SATA. The NVM protocol is better.

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Aamir Jameel

Senior Systems Manager at Tapal tea

Scalable but not user-friendly

Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly. IBM also needs to provide proper training to handle Spectrum Control because it's a complicated solution I've been using Spectrum Control for almost three years. Spectrum Control's stability is fine. Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"The solution works well. It's very reliable."

"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."

"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."

"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."

"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."

"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."

"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."

"The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item they choose."

"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."

"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."

"The product keeps historical data for a very long time."

"In my opinion, it's the best monitoring and report creation tool for IBM storage devices. You can do a lot of performance stats and reports with very nice tools for IBM storage devices."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of use. The ability to get into a storage device and look at whatever you are trying to look at as far as performance, then obtain the reports that you need to do your analytical work."

"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."

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Cons

"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."

"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."

"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."

"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."

"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."

"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."

"There can be delays in getting performance reports."

More Dell VPLEX cons

"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."

"The database could be improved so that the complexity of installation could be easier. We would also like to have more granularity in the profiles and products for users. We would like to link the users to the tool to managers or auditors."

"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."

"The pain points were, and may still continue to be, the fact that there are multiple components of the product which are installed, you might say, somewhat individually."

"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."

"The initial setup for IBM Spectrum Control is a bit complicated. They should also make it easier to integrate and use the Cosmos Analytics tool, which is very complicated."

"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."

"We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."

"It is pay for the amount of storage that you are monitoring. The more that we use the tool and like the tool, we may want to extend it to other storage platforms. This is just a matter of cost."

"We were already licensing Spectrum Control. This was one reasons why we went to Control rather than using the other product."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

14%

Insurance Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Healthcare Company

10%

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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Dell VPLEX?

Some of the products are very easy to implement, while others are more difficult, and our team seeks support help when required. Regarding the integration part, the delivery team handles all integr...

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What is your primary use case for Dell VPLEX?

We are implementing Cohesity, Hitachi, Dell, and Nutanix, VMware, vSAN; multiple products. We have recently started working with Cohesity because there was not much presence in India for Cohesity, ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Dell VPLEX?

Hitachi Systems Microclinic has been renamed to Hitachi Systems India Private Limited. The email address has been changed to shailendra.chaudhry.hd at hitachi-systems.com from shailendra_singh.chau...

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Spectrum Control

Overview

Wth EMC VPLEX you can deploy next-generation virtualization architecture to enable simultaneous information access within, between, and across data centers, move applications, virtual machines, and data in and between data centers without impacting users and deliver application and data availability within the data center and over distance with full infrastructure utilization and zero downtime.

Dell Technologies

IBM Spectrum Control is a comprehensive solution that can significantly improve monitoring, automation and analytics capabilities in multi-vendor storage environments. IBM Spectrum Control helps manage storage systems, software-defined storage, storage-area network (SAN) fabrics and devices. Storage can be seen from multiple perspectives, including departmental, application and server views. IBM Spectrum Control helps simplify provisioning, tier optimization, performance management and data replication processes.

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