Dell VPLEX vs IBM SAN Volume 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 #8. Dell Technologies holds a 4.8% mindshare in SM, compared to IBM’s 4.3% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Dell VPLEX

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88% willing to recommend

IBM SAN Volume Control

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and IBM SAN Volume 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 SAN Volume Control

Ranking in Storage Management

8th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

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 SAN Volume Control is 4.3%, down from 7.1% 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 SAN Volume Control	4.3%
Other	90.9%

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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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Nagendra Nekkala.

Senior Manager ICT & at Bangalore International Airport Limited

A sustainable product that has ultra-low latency and reliable security features

Initially, we had some challenges with massive amounts of customer data. We have an airport segment where the passenger data are required, and it’s huge data. We needed a system that could store bulk data with low latency and provide a good customer experience. The solution is very famous. Ultra latency provides miraculous performance and productivity. It also enables advanced virtualization for good scalability. Anyone can opt to use the product. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

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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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."

"The product has an ultra-low latency."

"The solution is easy to use, easily configurable, and easy to upgrade, manipulate, and add new storage."

"With SVC it is very easy to manage and to use for migration, meaning that when we want to move or to keep control of the volume or update a server database, it is very easy. That's why we use it."

"The most valuable features of IBM SAN Volume Control are the copy services, performance metrics, and analysis. Additionally, they have upgraded and introduced visual volumes."

"The virtualization layer has been great."

Cons

"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."

"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."

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

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

"There can be delays in getting performance reports."

"The initial setup is complex."

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

More Dell VPLEX cons

"IBM SAN Volume Control could improve by better integrations with other vendor systems. IBM SAN Volume Control can store the environment and are able to integrate with Veeam, but I don't know if they can integrate as well with SVC or other vendors' systems."

"They just need to put in the snap volume because now they use what is called a flash copy. This means that you have to take all the volume instead of NetApp which uses their snapshot."

"IBM support can be very slow."

"I would like to see the usage of virtualized storage boxes improved. I'd like to see this feature fixed, especially for SVC controller, and to be able to hold more storage."

"Patch management and upgrades must be made easier."

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."

"The initial price of IBM SAN Volume Control is steep."

"With SAN Volume Controller, we need to license by terabyte."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

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

Small Business

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

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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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IBM SVC

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

Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software—part of the IBM Spectrum Storage family—IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is an enterprise-class storage system that helps organizations achieve better data economics by supporting the new large scale workloads that are critical to success. SVC systems can handle the massive volumes of data from mobile and social applications and enable flexible hybrid multicloud deployments and deliver the performance and scalability needed to gain insights from the latest analytics technologies.

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Sample Customers

Kindred Healthcare, Regis Aged Care, WeBank SpA, Panduit, Munson Healthcare

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