Dell VPLEX vs SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor comparison

Dell Technologies and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Storage Management category. Dell Technologies is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.3, while SolarWinds is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.0. Dell Technologies holds a 8.2% mindshare in SM, compared to SolarWinds’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

Dell VPLEX

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell VPLEX

Ranking in Storage Management

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

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Ranking in Storage Management

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Dell VPLEX is 8.2%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is 2.8%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sayed Zuber

Sr. Storage And Backup Engineer at OMNIdata Trading, Lda.

Feb 14, 2023

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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it_user652953

IT Director at a construction company with 51-200 employees

Apr 25, 2017

Provides a visual representation and drill down into your environment.

Scalability is my sore spot. With the way they use nodes and count nodes, it’s very easy to blow well past your license amount. I have, for example, a 150 node license, of which I am monitoring 337 nodes. However, only 150 are actually monitored, so I have to do a lot to try to find the right applications to monitor. Since the next level for licensing is 500/700 or something like that, I simply haven’t been able to afford the bump up. I simply need a much higher license level than I have. However, the cost is too much and they lack the flexibility in allowing you a smaller step up. It goes from, say 150 nodes to 500. There is no 250 or 300, for example. Would I find applications to monitor, with the selection from Windows, Linux, SQL, IIS, Active Director, and Exchange? You bet. For now, however, I have to be patient until I can justify the cost of the upgrade.

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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 solution works well. It's very reliable."

"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."

"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."

"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."

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

"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."

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

"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."

"The initial setup is very straightforward."

Cons

"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."

"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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"The solution could always be more easily scalable."

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

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Computer Software Company

22%

Government

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Educational Organization

75%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dell VPLEX?

Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell VPLEX?

This is an enterprise solution so licensing costs are generally on the higher side. There will be additional costs if you want to do a network cluster for business servers.

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What needs improvement with Dell VPLEX?

Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure. Any EMX product, be it PowerMax, VMAX, or DMAX, works based on the CLI. A person has to be very good at runn...

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What do you like most about SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor?

The initial setup is very straightforward.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor?

I don't have any details related to cost or licensing.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor?

Some of my clients complain that their arrays are working fine, yet, in SolarWinds, they show me as unreachable as the status. When I ask my client what the status actually is, they say it's runnin...

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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.

The storage monitoring and capacity management software from SolarWinds gives you deep visibility into the performance of your multi-vendor storage arrays, and helps you closely watch the application stack for storage issues that affect application performance.

Sample Customers

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