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Dell VxBlock System pros and cons

Vendor: Dell Technologies

3.9 out of 5

14 reviews
92% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Dell VxBlock System offers speed and performance with VMware and VMotion integration, ensuring factory-built reliability. Its converged infrastructure simplifies troubleshooting, though it lacks support for Hyper-V and a unified management console. Quick deployment saves costs, yet high pricing and configuration complexities present challenges. Scalability issues and mixed application compatibility are concerns, alongside costly rebuilds if configuration details are incorrect. Despite strengths, careful consideration is advised for potential buyers.

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PROS

Dell VxBlock System offers excellent speed and performance.

Integration with VMware and VMotion brings substantial value.

It is factory-built and tested, ensuring reliability and trust.

It's ideal for server consolidation and efficient deployment in new environments.

It delivers everything in a single box, simplifying management.

CONS

Does not support Hyper-V and lacks flexibility with different kinds of mixed applications and third-party applications.

Scalability and integration of different parts need improvement, with no single console management for all components.

Management of specific VxBlock components is challenging, particularly with automated detection and notification for Cisco components.

There is a risk of mistakes in implementation requiring a rebuild, highlighting the need for precise upfront configuration information.

Hardware lifecycle documentation is insufficient, and disparate ownership between Dell and Cisco complicates issue resolution.

Dell VxBlock System Pros review quotes

MA

IT Consultant at Ministry of Education

Oct 15, 2019

The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed.

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Associate General Manager at Adani Enterprises Ltd

Mar 4, 2020

Good default features.

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CR

Technical Consultant at KPN IT Solutions - Trusted Services

Jul 26, 2020

VxBlock has good performance, so that is an advantage.

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reviewer1393923

IT Director, Operational Technology (OT) at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 29, 2020

Integration with VMware and VMotion definitely brings a lot of value.

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Sr. System and Storage Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

Aug 13, 2020

Virtual machines for the infrastructure.

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reviewer1435092

Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 14, 2020

It's a highly optimized piece of equipment that doesn't give us any problems.

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reviewer1401666

Data center Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 22, 2020

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.

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reviewer1331985

Senior System Administrator at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 19, 2021

Its performance is very good.

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Data Warehouse Manager at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 13, 2021

Good flexibility and speed.

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reviewer1160451

General Manager -Enterprise Technical Solution at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 18, 2021

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.

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Dell VxBlock System Cons review quotes

MA

IT Consultant at Ministry of Education

Oct 15, 2019

This solution does not support Hyper-V, and we would like the new version to be supported and certified to work with Hyper-V.

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Associate General Manager at Adani Enterprises Ltd

Mar 4, 2020

The consistency of disc quality could be improved.

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CR

Technical Consultant at KPN IT Solutions - Trusted Services

Jul 26, 2020

It's a good product but the price could be lowered. It's expensive.

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reviewer1393923

IT Director, Operational Technology (OT) at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 29, 2020

Scalability is an area that needs to be improved.

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Sr. System and Storage Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

Aug 13, 2020

Does not support different kinds of mixed applications.

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reviewer1435092

Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 14, 2020

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.

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reviewer1401666

Data center Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 22, 2020

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.

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reviewer1331985

Senior System Administrator at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 19, 2021

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.

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Data Warehouse Manager at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 13, 2021

Lacks flexibility with third-party applications.

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reviewer1160451

General Manager -Enterprise Technical Solution at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 18, 2021

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.

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