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Dell Vscale Architecture vs Vblock [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Vscale Architecture
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
1
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Converged Infrastructure (11th)
Vblock [EOL]
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
24
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Featured Reviews

AR
Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Intuitive, robust, manageable, and agile
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 APIs for automation first thing. Secondly, in terms of Vscale Architecture, they should have some evangelists. When I go to the community for VMware ESXi or NSX, I get lots of information online everywhere because community members are talking, evangelists are talking. Additionally, I usually have a lot of KV articles and lot of community articles I can read and sort out the minor issues. But, in terms of Vscale, you need to be very mature in all aspects of the technology and when you get disturbed, you have to go through the entire documentation to figure things out. I think I heard this from one or two customers as well. Their resources are not able to find much online support for Vscale. As for what should be included in future releases, customers are looking for a unified management console, which they have, but the console should be more user-friendly. Secondly, they should have more scope of orchestration. Thirdly, regarding monitoring, there should be a built-in monitoring engine like we have in Nutanix. These are the things customers complain about sometimes.
TS
Chief Consultant and Architect at Tahir Professional Services
Centrally-managed and stable, but the initial setup could be made simpler and technical support can be improved
There is a different platform and there are different interfaces for different parts of the product. Although there are some centralized components, you still manage each component using its own set of tools. There is definitely room for improvement in this regard. I would like to have a catalogue like menu where you simply define your end computing needs and the rest would be taken care of internally. The initial setup could be unified to make it simpler.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"This solution has rock-solid reliability."
"The solution was implemented by the VCE team, and they did a great job."
"We were able to achieve significant capital savings in our tech refresh capital projects due to implementing the Vblock solution in our environment."
"​It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications.​"
"It's been very reliable, the support is very good, and it fit our needs very well, but our needs are constantly changing."
"UCS brings the entire datacenter system together, letting us offer non-disruptive, seamless upgrades and storage tiering for people with higher IO demands, and it gives us flexibility."
"Systems run solidly."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
 

Cons

"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."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"Currently, there is some uncertainty about the future of the product line with regards to Dell's takeover of EMC."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"The only thing I would like to see is that although they strongly advocate that you cannot change any of its parts, and that would undermine its performance, but a little allowance should be allowed for disassembly within certain areas, which would be nice."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"I would have given it a higher rating except for how the patching and updates are applied."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Strive for a consolidated ELA."
"Related to tech support: I believe it is too expensive."
"The paid support for Vblock is expensive."
"I would not say the pricing is not good value. It is still on the expensive side, near the top-end of cost compared to what's available now. Also, the licensing has to be improved. There has to be a clear definition of the licensing from the initial set-up so the customer knows what they are paying for, without being hit later on with extra licensing. The licensing definitions should be clearer and, perhaps, have one set of licenses rather than multiple licenses."
"Vblock appears from the first while to be very expensive. There are more items you cannot see in the BOQ: customer service, support, delivery short time, and highly experienced VCE engineers."
"I think the pricing is on the higher end of the spectrum. There could be some adjustments that could be made there. Regarding licensing, watch compatibility with external products that you run on Vblock. It has got to be properly architected, otherwise, you will run into licensing issues."
"It is not cheap."
"Vblock is priced at a premium because people don't want the headache of managing and deploying different products."
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Also Known As

VCE Vscale Architecture, Vscale Architecture
VCE Vblock
 

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