"Its performance is very good."
"Good default features."
"Good flexibility and speed."
"It's a highly optimized piece of equipment that doesn't give us any problems."
"It's at least 99 percent problem-free because it's factory-built. So from an informational point of view, everyone trusts that VxBlock has been tested well at the factory and has been configured to their requirements."
"Integration with VMware and VMotion definitely brings a lot of value."
"The monitoring and management parts are the most valuable. Monitoring is specifically valuable because you have one console to monitor everything. This console is called Vision."
"Virtual machines for the infrastructure."
"You will find the high availability and License Team with Oracle very valuable."
"It is a good product, but for us, it is like a black box. We are not really sure about its internal components, and how to do the terminal upgrade, and how to make sure about the security of the device. We understand how it works, but in order to do the upgrades, we have to get help from the company. We cannot do it ourselves. In another model that we had, the internal team could do the upgrade but not in this one. There is no clear process for a new upgrade or update. They should provide a software intelligence tool that has a dashboard where you can see the current firmware, the latest firmware, and the documentation and the process for the upgrade. For VxBlock, we have different management consoles. There is no single management console that you can use to manage all components inside VxBlock. Their scale up and scale out process is also not clear. Their support is also a little bit slow in responding to the cases."
"We are finding it a bit challenging in terms of the management of a specific VxBlock component. Currently, we have different units as a part of the block storage. We have one for Cisco equipment and one for Dell. When we have an issue in the infrastructure, Dell EMC VxBlock System should automatically detect it and send a notification to VC support, but, unfortunately, it is doing that only for one unit. It is not working for Cisco components. We have informed them about this area of improvement, and they are working on this. The way different parts are integrated should be improved. We should have one console to log in to see all the infrastructure in terms of each machine and hardware."
"The hardware lifecycle is not documented very well. For example, now you can buy a piece of equipment, but you don't know if the hardware is going to be a team production next month or next year."
"Lacks flexibility with third-party applications."
"The only thing that I can say is when you procure the VxBlock, obviously you have to complete detailed questionnaires about your architecture including the configuration, et cetera. If you make a mistake on the implementation, then you need to rebuild the entire VxBlock. That is just a point of consideration rather than a flaw. You need to be absolutely sure and validate the upfront configuration information that you provide because your VxBlock comes delivered and built, according to that exact information."
"Scalability is an area that needs to be improved."
"The consistency of disc quality could be improved."
"Does not support different kinds of mixed applications."
"The initial setup was very complex."
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Dell EMC VxBlock System is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is ranked 7th in Converged Infrastructure with 1 review. Dell EMC VxBlock System is rated 7.6, while Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Dell EMC VxBlock System writes "Highly optimized equipment that increases efficiencies and is very stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance writes "Has high availability but the management can be better". Dell EMC VxBlock System is most compared with Dell EMC Vscale Architecture, HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell PowerEdge VRTX, FlexPod and Dell EMC PowerOne, whereas Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is most compared with HPE ConvergedSystem, Oracle SuperCluster, FlexPod, Rackspace OpenStack and Dell PowerEdge VRTX.
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