We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Vblock [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"The ability to backup our data without requiring additional storage media or software application was a huge gain."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"Valuable features include ease of use, disaster recovery, and reliability."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. The management is easy, and you don't have to have a lot of knowledge about storage, network, etc. It is simple to manage and simple to implement, and that's its key feature."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"We should have something called micro segmentation inside the SimpliVity box, which can be easily implemented."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
"In the next release of the solution, they should make updating the solution easier. Currently, we have HPE doing it for us but I would like to be able to do it."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"We would like to have more security with the solution."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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