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IBM PurePower System vs Vblock [EOL] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM PurePower System
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
1
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Vblock [EOL]
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
24
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it_user1288227 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure Division at ADM
Easy to work on and has never had any glitches or issues
My advice to others would be the following: if you have a traditional application, like core banking, or transactional, or something that has to do with money, it is better to go with IBM. The reason I'm saying this is because it is more stable and easier to monitor. But if you are looking for the newest architecture of the application cloud, you should go with either hyper-converged or converged. I would like to see better management and high availability in the next release of this program. With classical architectural systems, it's more delicate and difficult to have a high availability of systems. But with hyper-converged systems, we can have it in the easiest way. On a scale from one to ten, I will rate this program an eight.
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.

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

Pros

"We never have any issues or glitches."
"I am very impressed by the stability of the program."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"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."
"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."
"VCE’s secret sauce is their release compatibility matrix which allows us to deploy updates without the need for significant testing."
"​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.​"
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"Legacy built architecture disappeared with VCE converged infrastructure, as only one person with transversal knowledge can achieve the Logical Configuration Survey, resulting in a strong and powerful infrastructure with nearly no downtime, and this is well known by the VCE technical support."
 

Cons

"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
"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 were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"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."
"I'm not so excited with Vblock solution."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is not cheap."
"Vblock is priced at a premium because people don't want the headache of managing and deploying different products."
"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."
"Strive for a consolidated ELA."
"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."
"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."
"Related to tech support: I believe it is too expensive."
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Outsourcing Company
12%
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11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

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VCE Vblock
 

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