Our systems, both old and new, were not purchased totally loaded. We have open slots to be able to add more compute blades and, in our old system, we added both blades and upgraded RAM for more VM resources.

This solution is scalable if needed to be expanded. 

We've never expanded beyond our initial purchase.

All company employees can be using it, so that would be well over seven thousand. 

Scalability is limited. Storage, for example, has a limit. Right now, we have 4-5,000 people using the solution.

There are no issues from a scalability standpoint, except sometimes it gets to be on the costly side.

Vblock can be scaled, although it is better to know how big it will need to scale ahead of time. It can become complex very quickly and the whole model is rigid. So, you generally chose which model works best in the environment and you have to stick with it.

One of the biggest challenges for VCE was the scalability because of limitations from each vendor. Actually, they introduced new vBlock technologies using xDN to allow scale out architecture (SDDC/SDN/SDS), and bypass limitation within production.

Vblock™ has full scalability. It is flexible from storage to networking components to Cisco UCS blades & chassis (opinion - which in this day and age is one of the leaders in the industry for server hardware) and supports many different configurations.

No.

We have expanded the capacity of our existing systems numerous times without issue.

There were no scalability issues.

We've had no issues with scalability.

It’s very scalable. Every year we upgrade our capacity and just add another blade.

It is scalable. But the cost is quite expensive, so scalability is not as cheap as you think, when you initially get it. It's quite expensive.