We performed a comparison between Dell VxBlock System and IBM PurePower System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."Integration with VMware and VMotion definitely brings a lot of value."
"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."
"In comparison to traditional file load systems, Dell VxBlock System can be deployed quickly and results in monthly cost savings."
"Virtual machines for the infrastructure."
"VxBlock has good performance, so that is an advantage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed."
"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."
"We never have any issues or glitches."
"It's a good product but the price could be lowered. It's expensive."
"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."
"Does not support different kinds of mixed applications."
"This solution does not support Hyper-V, and we would like the new version to be supported and certified to work with Hyper-V."
"Scalability is an area that needs to be improved."
"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."
"The solution could use a clearer description of working methods to tell people more about its use cases."
"Lacks flexibility with third-party applications."
"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
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Dell VxBlock System is ranked 4th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews while IBM PurePower System is ranked 11th in Converged Infrastructure. Dell VxBlock System is rated 7.8, while IBM PurePower System is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell VxBlock System writes "Can be deployed quickly, is easy to manage, and is stable and resilient". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM PurePower System writes "Easy to work on and has never had any glitches or issues ". Dell VxBlock System is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, FlexPod XCS, Dell Vscale Architecture, IBM VersaStack and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas IBM PurePower System is most compared with .
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