We performed a comparison between Dell Vscale Architecture and Dell VxBlock System 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."Vscale's scalability is super good. Vscale's scalability, manageability, and performance are all three areas that I emphasize when I sell Vscale Architectures to the customer."
"With a converged infrastructure, it's easy to troubleshoot from network to server issues from a single point of reference."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed."
"Its performance is very good."
"It's a highly optimized piece of equipment that doesn't give us any problems."
"VxBlock has good performance, so that is an advantage."
"Good default features."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of what could be improved, I particularly think the scope of automation is very much limited. So they should introduce some more STK's and API's for automation first thing."
"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."
"The consistency of disc quality could be improved."
"It's a good product but the price could be lowered. It's expensive."
"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."
"Does not support different kinds of mixed applications."
"Scalability is an area that needs to be improved."
"The solution could use a clearer description of working methods to tell people more about its use cases."
"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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Dell Vscale Architecture is ranked 9th in Converged Infrastructure while Dell VxBlock System is ranked 4th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews. Dell Vscale Architecture is rated 8.0, while Dell VxBlock System is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell Vscale Architecture writes "Intuitive, robust, manageable, and agile ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell VxBlock System writes "Can be deployed quickly, is easy to manage, and is stable and resilient". Dell Vscale Architecture is most compared with FlexPod XCS, whereas Dell VxBlock System is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, FlexPod XCS, IBM VersaStack, HPE ConvergedSystem and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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