We performed a comparison between Vblock [EOL] and VxRail 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."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 component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"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."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"Being able to perform upgrades and check the system through the VxRail Manager has been very helpful."
"The cover points feature in VxRail is remarkable. It's unique. It has an intervention failover system as well as an automatic failover system, reaching clusters existing in VxRail. This makes all files act as a single file with a large and huge resource, and, of course, with customized administration, configuration, and resources. It provides automatic failover for redundancy and data recovery."
"It helps simplify the management of VMware."
"VxRail simplifies IT infrastructure management by providing a single management console for compute, storage, and network. The second advantage is that VxRail offers a continuously validated architecture from the OEM. This means that Dell thoroughly tests all firmware updates before being released or installed on the product, helping to prevent compatibility issues. The third benefit is its ten-year roadmap. Dell consistently announces a roadmap for the product spanning the next decade."
"We were able to speed up our gaming software, which was a big plus."
"You don't need to think about compatibility of components."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The most compelling aspect of VxRail lies in its unwavering guarantee of sustained performance for my systems, regardless of their geographical distribution."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"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."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"We'd like to see more automation capabilities in the future."
"The implementation of a VxRail, it's straightforward, but the ongoing utilization, and integration, are where it can start to become difficult if you're not used to doing it."
"The requirements need improvement. Some of the managers of VMs are a little sensitive to where they need to be placed in the environment and what names they need to have. I would like a little more control over that so that it fits into our naming scheme and it fits our organizational structure within vSphere."
"The solution is okay to scale vertically but a bit difficult to expend horizontally. For example, increasing RAM."
"There is a limitation on the number of nodes."
"It would be nice if the update process was shortened and that patching would be simpler."
"Obtaining support was hindered by the frequent changes to the hotline numbers."
"There are still some features which aren't built into Cisco, like virtualized networking, that use its applications. However, these can be purchased through another product as an additional licensing cost to us."
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Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Vblock [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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