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Dell Vscale Architecture vs Vblock [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Vscale Architecture
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
1
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Vblock [EOL]
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
24
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Featured Reviews

AR
Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Intuitive, robust, manageable, and agile
In terms of what could be improved, I particularly think the scope of automation is very much limited. So they should introduce some more STK's and APIs for automation first thing. Secondly, in terms of Vscale Architecture, they should have some evangelists. When I go to the community for VMware ESXi or NSX, I get lots of information online everywhere because community members are talking, evangelists are talking. Additionally, I usually have a lot of KV articles and lot of community articles I can read and sort out the minor issues. But, in terms of Vscale, you need to be very mature in all aspects of the technology and when you get disturbed, you have to go through the entire documentation to figure things out. I think I heard this from one or two customers as well. Their resources are not able to find much online support for Vscale. As for what should be included in future releases, customers are looking for a unified management console, which they have, but the console should be more user-friendly. Secondly, they should have more scope of orchestration. Thirdly, regarding monitoring, there should be a built-in monitoring engine like we have in Nutanix. These are the things customers complain about sometimes.
TS
Chief Consultant and Architect at Tahir Professional Services
Centrally-managed and stable, but the initial setup could be made simpler and technical support can be improved
There is a different platform and there are different interfaces for different parts of the product. Although there are some centralized components, you still manage each component using its own set of tools. There is definitely room for improvement in this regard. I would like to have a catalogue like menu where you simply define your end computing needs and the rest would be taken care of internally. The initial setup could be unified to make it simpler.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Vscale's scalability is super good. Vscale's scalability, manageability, and performance are all three areas that I emphasize when I sell Vscale Architectures to the customer."
"​The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers​ performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"Systems run solidly."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"The solution was implemented by the VCE team, and they did a great job."
"UCS brings the entire datacenter system together, letting us offer non-disruptive, seamless upgrades and storage tiering for people with higher IO demands, and it gives us flexibility."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Many times I personally felt that while this is a good product to implement in any environment, the one key factor is knowing the environment that this is going to go, know the purpose it is going to serve, and plan ahead a minimum of two years ahead what you might see are areas that might need extra upgrading."
 

Cons

"In terms of what could be improved, I particularly think the scope of automation is very much limited. So they should introduce some more STK's and API's for automation first thing."
"I think there needs to be more tools to monitor and manage the Vblock™ as a whole, instead of pieces."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"I would have given it a higher rating except for how the patching and updates are applied."
"The VCE Vision product definitely needs some improvement as it is not as easy to use as other commercial off the shelf software."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Related to tech support: I believe it is too expensive."
"I would not say the pricing is not good value. It is still on the expensive side, near the top-end of cost compared to what's available now. Also, the licensing has to be improved. There has to be a clear definition of the licensing from the initial set-up so the customer knows what they are paying for, without being hit later on with extra licensing. The licensing definitions should be clearer and, perhaps, have one set of licenses rather than multiple licenses."
"I think the pricing is on the higher end of the spectrum. There could be some adjustments that could be made there. Regarding licensing, watch compatibility with external products that you run on Vblock. It has got to be properly architected, otherwise, you will run into licensing issues."
"Strive for a consolidated ELA."
"Vblock is priced at a premium because people don't want the headache of managing and deploying different products."
"The paid support for Vblock is expensive."
"It is not cheap."
"Vblock appears from the first while to be very expensive. There are more items you cannot see in the BOQ: customer service, support, delivery short time, and highly experienced VCE engineers."
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Also Known As

VCE Vscale Architecture, Vscale Architecture
VCE Vblock
 

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