We performed a comparison between IBM PurePower System, SteelFusion, 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."We never have any issues or glitches."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"Systems run solidly."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"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."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"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."