We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and IBM Spectrum Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"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 capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"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."
"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."
"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 benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"The installation was very easy. You just install an agent on a server, and you give that agent access to your storage device, then it just collects the data. It took five minutes to set up."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"The initial setup is complex."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"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 solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"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 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."
Dell VPLEX is ranked 2nd in Storage Management with 18 reviews while IBM Spectrum Control is ranked 1st in Storage Management with 8 reviews. Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2, while IBM Spectrum Control is rated 7.8. 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 Control writes "Scalable but not user-friendly". Dell VPLEX is most compared with IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM SAN Volume Control, NetApp OnCommand and Huawei OceanStor DJ, whereas IBM Spectrum Control is most compared with IBM Storage Insights and CA 1 Tape Management. See our Dell VPLEX vs. IBM Spectrum Control report.
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