We performed a comparison between Dell VxBlock System and Vblock [EOL] 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."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."
"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."
"Virtual machines for the infrastructure."
"With a converged infrastructure, it's easy to troubleshoot from network to server issues from a single point of reference."
"Good flexibility and speed."
"Its performance is very good."
"Integration with VMware and VMotion definitely brings a lot of value."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"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."
"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."
"Does not support different kinds of mixed applications."
"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."
"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."
"This solution does not support Hyper-V, and we would like the new version to be supported and certified to work with Hyper-V."
"It's a good product but the price could be lowered. It's expensive."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
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Dell VxBlock System is ranked 4th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure. Dell VxBlock System is rated 7.8, while Vblock [EOL] 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 Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". Dell VxBlock System is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, FlexPod XCS, Dell Vscale Architecture, IBM VersaStack and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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