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Dell VPLEX vs NetApp BlueXP comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Dell VPLEX
Ranking in Storage Management
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp BlueXP
Ranking in Storage Management
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Dell VPLEX is 6.8%, up from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp BlueXP is 5.7%, up from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NetApp BlueXP5.7%
Dell VPLEX6.8%
Other87.5%
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Shailendra Choudhary - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Has supported enterprise projects consistently but pricing remains a challenge for broader adoption
We are system integrators and resell the HCI solution. We have worked with Dell VPLEX for approximately two to three years. We have been in several RFCs, and Dell VPLEX is implemented in the enterprise segment only. The solution is expensive and requires more budget, so people in the SMB segment do not prefer it. We typically recommend Dell VPLEX for customers who already work with other Dell products.
Nagendra Nekkala. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Ict & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited
Unified control plane has simplified hybrid data management and has automated workflow orchestration
In terms of areas where NetApp BlueXP can be improved, I focus on privacy and governance. What I mean by this is that personally sensitive information in the interface needs to be encrypted, which is called privacy. As per the governance policy, that is for data security governance policy, it also needs to have a specific policy on how this data has been categorized. If I had the opportunity to add a feature or function to NetApp BlueXP, I would ensure that privacy and governance are taken care of properly.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"It’s a great product; very reliable."
"We have see performance improvement in our databases."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"For a new application setup, it worked like a charm."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"The business continuity is sorted, as the data is in two data centers, i.e., readable and writable, and if one side goes down, there is no downtime and the other side continues non-disruptively."
"Due to the large number of models and different brands it is a very good solution to virtualize volumes."
"NetApp BlueXP ensures my data management by storage, mobility, protection, analysis, and control, so discovering, deployment, and managing storage are all of the real strong features for it."
"All Pure products are very much compatible with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, maintaining a high level of compatibility-wise and security-wise, and are very much advanced and very useful."
"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."
"When we compare it to classic infrastructure, we see money saving."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to view all our different systems in one place. That's the most important feature for us."
"The software interface can extract the data from the backend effectively."
"NetApp BlueXP makes it easier to deliver products and manage inventory."
"If your use case involves backing up data from the cloud or transitioning data from on-prem to cloud or between multiple or hybrid clouds, NetApp BlueXP is a very good tool."
 

Cons

"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 administration is difficult, so we want to add hyper-converged infrastructure."
"It needs to improve the thin reclaim on certain arrays."
"Cost. This is really expensive."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"Based on our requirements, we bought this product for doing online data migrations without data disruption, but we realized that there is a limit to backend storage that can be encapsulate to it."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"The tool needs to make its licensing pages more user-friendly."
"In terms of areas where NetApp BlueXP can be improved, I focus on privacy and governance."
"It is not easy to integrate with Google because if we have some problems, we must talk with Google and NetApp support."
"The dashboard management could be improved."
"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."
"I chose eight out of ten because the UI is slow sometimes, and the initial configuration is a bit complex."
"It's a very expensive product."
 

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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Healthcare Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
24%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Real Estate/Law Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
 

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...
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, ...
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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp BlueXP?
Related to pricing, this is managed by the financial team, but I understand it is a bit high. Compared to competitors including Dell PowerStore, Dell APEX, and IBM Spectrum, these are slightly less...
What needs improvement with NetApp BlueXP?
In terms of areas where NetApp BlueXP can be improved, I focus on privacy and governance. What I mean by this is that personally sensitive information in the interface needs to be encrypted, which ...
What is your primary use case for NetApp BlueXP?
NetApp BlueXP allows me to store and share large amounts of my digital data across physical and hybrid cloud environments, which is the main purpose of utilizing this solution.
 

Also Known As

No data available
NetApp Cloud Manager, NetApp OnCommand Cloud Manager
 

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Sample Customers

Kindred Healthcare, Regis Aged Care, WeBank SpA, Panduit, Munson Healthcare
RapidScale, Bank of Cyrus, Societe Generale, Denver Broncos
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell VPLEX vs. NetApp BlueXP and other solutions. Updated: August 2026.
908,834 professionals have used our research since 2012.