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Dell VxBlock System Room for Improvement

AKINJIDE OKE - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Sales Engineer / Team Lead Datacentre Solutions & Applications at ARIT OF AFRICA

I've worked with Dell and had the privilege of working with many OEMs. I started my career as a system engineer, working with HPE as a partner, and then moved to other OEMs like IBM and Lenovo. Currently, I work with a small team.

I don't believe any solution is bad. It's just that you might not have identified what the solution is addressing. It's about choosing the right solution for your needs. In terms of hardware or infrastructure, it's an Intel platform. What differentiates everyone is the additional value they can provide. Dell has many values that meet customer needs.

I look at the customer's objectives and requirements as an IT professional to find the best solution. I haven't seen any drawbacks regarding the infrastructure deliverables or the value built into the tool. However, Dell as an organization could improve its channel management. For example, we've been trying to resolve an issue with our portal for two weeks.

I'd like to see more simplification regarding integration, deployment, and connectivity for future releases. In deployment, I'd like to see simplification in creating VNets and positioning VMware across nodes. I want a template that simplifies the creation of VNets and VMware positioning. I'd push for more simplification and an intuitive graphical GUI that simplifies things with just a click.

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SamuelOguta - PeerSpot reviewer
Head IT Infrastructure & Operations at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There are components of VxBlock that are not managed or supported by Dell because some of the components are from Cisco. Thus, when there are problems with compute nodes, though Dell was managing the interaction, we had to rely on Cisco to solve the issue. When Cisco was not responding as quickly as Dell would for their components, it made it difficult for us because we needed to have the failed nodes back up and running. As such, the disparate ownership of components in the equipment is an issue.

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SamuelThomas - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

There is a need for single console management. Everything should be accessible through a single console to ensure ease of management. 

So far, there are no issues since the storage and other systems are integrated with the latest technology.

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reviewer1160451 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager -Enterprise Technical Solution at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I want to get more information from the vendors. 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 will still be in production next month or next year. Most customers expect to run this hardware and still be supported for the next five years or so. I think the projections about the lifetime of the hardware and the systems need to be better documented.

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dataware204993 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Warehouse Manager at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

The solution lacks some flexibility with third-party applications.

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reviewer1435092 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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 due to the fact that your VxBlock comes delivered and built according to that exact information.

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it_user1215906 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System and Storage Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

I'd like to see hardware improvement and the ability to support different kinds of mixed applications - a mixed workload support. The technical support could also be improved. 

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reviewer1393923 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director, Operational Technology (OT) at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

One thing that it lacks is multiple user interfaces. It has a single interface that is used to access multiple layers and there are different levels of management. We are hoping that Nutanix will simply this.

Scalability is an area that needs to be improved.

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CR
Technical Consultant at KPN IT Solutions - Trusted Services

It's a good product but the price could be lowered. It's expensive. The total cost of ownership is a very important figure against quality and performance and pricing. It should be the total package and that is the reason why I think this is a very good product.

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AA
Enterprise Information systems/Wintel Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution could use a clearer description of working methods to tell people more about its use cases.

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reviewer1331985 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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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reviewer1401666 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data center Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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SanjayKumar11 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate General Manager at Adani Enterprises Ltd

For VxBlock, the consistency of disc quality could be improved. 

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MA
IT Consultant at Ministry of Education

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 only supports VMware. We need this as a virtualization solution for the hardware.

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Dell VxBlock System
July 2025
Learn what your peers think about Dell VxBlock System. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2025.
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