We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX, IBM Spectrum Control, and NetApp BlueXP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"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 most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"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."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"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 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."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"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."
"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."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."
"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
"The product keeps historical data for a very long time."
"The primary benefit is that it simplifies data management. We face a lot of classification issues with our customers. They need to classify data, but they don't know how to do it. We can help them do it using BlueXP Datasense."
"NetApp BlueXP makes it easier to deliver products and manage inventory."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to view all our different systems in one place. That's the most important feature for us."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"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."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"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."
"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
"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)."
"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 tool needs to make its licensing pages more user-friendly."
"Performance could be a little better. In my opinion, it's a bit slow. If you click on something, it takes a while for the data to load."
"The VMware capabilities can be improved."
