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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
Ranking in other categories
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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 Vblock is designed to make IT life simpler (infrastructure framework) and more cost effective (an appliance) for an organization."
"We were able to achieve significant capital savings in our tech refresh capital projects due to implementing the Vblock solution in our environment."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"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."
 

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."
"I'm not so excited with Vblock solution."
"Paid support is expensive so the cost of operation could be lowered."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"Currently, there is some uncertainty about the future of the product line with regards to Dell's takeover of EMC."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process.​"
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The paid support for Vblock is expensive."
"Related to tech support: I believe it is too 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."
"It is not cheap."
"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."
"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."
"Vblock is priced at a premium because people don't want the headache of managing and deploying different products."
"Strive for a consolidated ELA."
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Manufacturing Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
 

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Also Known As

VCE Vscale Architecture, Vscale Architecture
VCE Vblock
 

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