We performed a comparison between Vblock [EOL] and VxRail 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 component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"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."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"Systems run solidly."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automation and integration points with other automation tools."
"We were able to speed up our gaming software, which was a big plus."
"The updating of the features was one aspect of the solution that made us decide to use it."
"VxRail is a simple, efficient solution. It's easy to upgrade and scale the solution. If we increase our user base, we can easily scale it out. We have several thousand using it now."
"Homogeneity is most valuable. The truth is that having everything in a single cluster helps a lot."
"Depending on your architecture type, it's simple to manage and implement VxRail compared to other solutions. That's why most of our customers use it."
"The stability is very good. We haven't had any issues at all. There aren't bugs or glitches. There aren't system crashes or anything of that nature."
"The pricing is very, very good."
"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."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"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."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"The solution should offer more integration with other virtual software. VxRail runs just with VMware, however, maybe it should integrate with Hyper-V or with KVM as well."
"Deployment was not initially straightforward for us. We had an incompatibility issue that was very difficult for Dell Professional Service to solve."
"The solution is vendor-locked and Dell is the only supplier of VxRail."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"The fact that is based on vSAN is the main issue of this solution."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"We have issues at times with the one-click upgrade, which is bugging us. At times, the one-click upgrade does not work or does not work well."
"At present, VxRail is a hyperconverged state of the art product being installed in a legacy way. We need hyperconverged install teams."
Earn 20 points
Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 112 reviews. Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Vblock [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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