Dell VPLEX vs IBM Spectrum Virtualize comparison

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"It lowers cost. It does so by getting more efficient use out of the technology behind it."

"The most valuable features are the simplicity of use, the flexibility, and the options included. I mean, it's just a big time saver."

"In my opinion, the quick restore, the low latency, and the ease of use are some of the most valuable features."

"It is a single pane of glass management interface, so once the storage is allocated to SVC, they only have one place to go to manage it for everything."

"Migration from configurations where servers have storage provisioned from older SAN disk systems to newer storage systems is almost seamless using image mode migration techniques, with only a short outage of the servers."

"There are many benefits to this solution. Storage virtualization and the ability to migrate massive amounts of data to other systems without impacting your client are the most valuable. It is non-disruptive for my users. We migrated 350 terabytes of data in one night to a new machine without a small system going down and a single user complaining about the performance. You have to fine-tune a lot of storage machines constantly for performance and for making sure that they are optimal, but IBM Spectrum Virtualize does this by itself. It does the adjustment on its own, and it does it right. That's what makes it different. I had a huge VSP from Hitachi, which is also a type of virtualization-based engine but with a decent size. It was a continuous performance-tuning exercise. I never had that issue with IBM Spectrum Virtualize."

"It has the ability to seamlessly move hardware in and out as we refresh technology."

"IBM provides exceptional technical support, which I rate as the best along with Cisco."

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

"There can be delays in getting performance reports."

"The initial setup is complex."

"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."

"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."

"NBME support and support for a higher Fibre Channel lengths could be improved, but those are already on the roadmap."

"There are big arrays now, and if a customer wants add more disks to it, you have to have another array. Adding disks to existing arrays is one of the most demanded things from our customers."

"t is limited in terms of a single system to eight nodes or four, what they call IO groups."

"Tighter integration with cloud storage might be useful as a target for a variety of use cases."

"The Storwize port is not so stable."

"I hate I/O groups. If you start swapping I/O groups, they can be potentially risky. If they could get rid of the whole I/O group principle, the risk is not there anymore. I understand the fundamental thing about I/O groups, but they are risky."

"The case logging process is efficient, but resolving software problems takes too much time."

"Anything which improves performance and the ability of our systems would be a nice."

"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."

"It has a lot of advanced functions for a reasonable price."

"This solution came as an additional cost for the TSM package we chose."

"We would like the CPU cycle to save more on the licensing costs for us."

"Do a proof of concept, if you are not comfortable jumping in, but do it."

"The entry point of pricing for this product is the most amazing price ever in the industry."

"We have struggled with Pure Storage, but people are understanding that much of Pure has been consumer grade SSDs. Therefore, when the customer is really understands what they are getting, they realize that IBM presents the same sort of value as existing vendors."

"Generally the bundled licensing is more cost effective and gives flexibility to the solution. Linking into the Spectrum Suite can also be advantageous, but depends on the scale of the enterprise."

"I think it is a good value for the price."