We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX, IBM Spectrum Control, and NetApp OnCommand Insight 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."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"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."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."
"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 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."
"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."
"The product keeps historical data for a very long time."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the reports, the complete analysis of the data. We also like the scalability, since it can work with Hitachi, Isilon, etc."
"It has helped us optimize our storage."
"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications."
"Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."
"It gives us the ability to look at our storage and figure out what we are doing with it. Without it, we are sort of blind."
"The most valuable feature is the security. When we identify a vulnerability, it is easy to mitigate it. NetApp provides the solution. It's also easy to create and move volumes."
"Once we gathered and saw what we were doing with everything, we saved close to a petabyte worth of data by being able to delete old data and move stuff around. Thus, we became more efficient."
"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 initial setup is complex."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."
"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."
"From 7-Mode to C mode a migration happened and many features, like FTP and SFTP, were dropped. We have been using it, but there needs to be better communication when features are dropped because there are end users using it who might find it a shock: "Oh, why was that dropped?""
"I would like to see better graphics. We have seen regular graphs and pie graphs. I am sure that there are better ways to show this information."
"It's the interop matrix. And if there was a chance to orchestrate on a heterogeneous structure using OCI, that would be a great start; or at least a plugin to each one of them, that would be a great start too."
"When we first went to Cluster Mode, we had a lot of problems. Setup took a few months. We had people onsite, including one of the top guys from NetApp for a while. Going from 7-Mode to Cluster Mode was rough."
"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."