We performed a comparison between Rackspace OpenStack 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."It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"The solution is stable."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"Systems run solidly."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"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."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"The line migration is a problem."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"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."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
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Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure. Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". 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". Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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