We performed a comparison between IBM VersaStack 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."The solution has high IOPS and the I/O is important because it gives us more transactions per second."
"The combination of Cisco's architecture and IBM's flash technology. Cisco provides FI technology which provides one simple architecture. IBM's flash technology is fast."
"Replication and DR implementation became faster."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"Systems run solidly."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"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."
"Raw data mapping for storage should be a given option."
"The solution should improve deduplication to get a lot of savings."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
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IBM VersaStack is ranked 8th in Converged Infrastructure with 3 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure. IBM VersaStack is rated 8.0, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM VersaStack writes "A very high IOPS that gives more I/O transactions per second". 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". IBM VersaStack is most compared with Dell VxBlock System, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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