We performed a comparison between Rackspace OpenStack 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 most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want."
"The solution is stable."
"I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware."
"It created a reusable library with OpenStack features."
"The documentation was plentiful and very helpful."
"Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"Systems run solidly."
"It could use more examples in different languages (API use cases)."
"The seamless integration between MySQL services and the rabbitMQ database can be revised during the debugging phase."
"So for the main stability, there have been a couple of issues that I've experienced."
"The line migration is a problem."
"OpenStack is difficult for the novice in terms of beginning to use cloud tools."
"OpenStack's UI, while user-friendly, could be improved to offer a more intuitive experience."
"VMware has a side-to-side replication feature, which is still more mature than Rackspace OpenStack's which can't be used in a production environment."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
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Rackspace OpenStack is ranked 6th in Converged Infrastructure with 9 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure. Rackspace OpenStack is rated 7.8, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Rackspace OpenStack writes "A scalable open-source solution that needs some improvement with its ecosystem". 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". Rackspace OpenStack is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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