Dell VxBlock System Reviews

The monitoring and management parts are the most valuable. Monitoring is specifically valuable because you have one console to monitor everything. This console is called Vision.

We are finding it a bit challenging in terms of the management of a specific VxBlock component. Currently, we have different units as a part of the block storage. We have one for Cisco equipment and one for Dell. When we have an issue in the infrastructure, Dell EMC VxBlock System should automatically detect it and send a notification to VC support, but, unfortunately, it is doing that only for one unit. It is not working for Cisco components. We have informed them about this area of improvement, and they are working on this.

The way different parts are integrated should be improved. We should have one console to log in to see all the infrastructure in terms of each machine and hardware.

I have been using this solution for three years now.

The system is quite stable. We have not faced any major issues. The issues that we faced were just minor and manageable.

In terms of scalability, it is good. The beauty is that we can scale whatever we want. We can add more compute nodes, storage nodes, or memory. We have a variety of users from different groups.

Their technical support can be improved because, sometimes, when you report an issue, it takes a while for them to respond.

It is complicated with the latest technology because you have to connect with the switches, servers, storage, and everything. All the components have to be connected so that the system can work properly. It might take three to five days, which is a lot of time.

We used an integrator.

Its price is high. That's why people are now moving to hyper-converge.

I would advise to stop using the normal spinning disk and going for an all-flash disk on the storage because of the performance issues.

I would rate Dell EMC VxBlock System a six out of ten.

We are using this solution for VMware virtualization. We are customers of Dell and I'm a senior system and storage administrator.

A valuable feature for me is the virtual machines for the infrastructure.

I'd like to see hardware improvement and the ability to support different kinds of mixed applications - a mixed workload support. The technical support could also be improved. 

I've been using this solution for a year. 

The stability is good. We haven't had any problems and we're happy with the product. 

This solution is mainly in the IT environment and is scalable. We have somewhere between 400-500 users in the organization. 

We previously used the HP system. We weren't using hyper-converged in HP, we moved onto that when we started with Dell. 

The initial setup was straightforward and deployment took us about a month. We used a system integrator for implementation. We have five people in the system team managing the solution. 

There is an HCI license on top of the VMware license. There are no costs on top of that. 

The rating for this Dell product is better than for other HCI products available on the market. We've compared it with HP SimpliVity, and Nutanix and we found the Dell rating highest.

I would rate this solution a seven out of 10. 

All of our IT runs on this infrastructure.

The most valuable feature is the flash.

Integration with VMware and VMotion definitely brings a lot of value.

One thing that it lacks is multiple user interfaces. It has a single interface that is used to access multiple layers and there are different levels of management. We are hoping that Nutanix will simply this.

Scalability is an area that needs to be improved.

We have been using this system for almost three years.

This platform has been pretty stable. We have had our challenges with people trying to hook things up, hardware failures, and cable failures. This is one of the reasons that we are looking to moving to hyper-converged infrastructure.

We have not had any challenges with scalability. The only component that we have scaled is storage. The compute and everything else is pretty modular. At the same time, our infrastructure team believes that Nutanix will be a better solution, overall, including from a scalability point of view.

We previously used HPE Superdome and the Dell solution is better.

The VxBlock System was easier to set up than our previous product by HPE.

We are currently evaluating our infrastructure needs and are thinking about implementing a solution from Nutanix.

This is a product that has plusses and minuses. It is better than HPE Superdome and using big servers, and it works well with VMware and VMotion. At the same time, there are challenges with scalability.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

I like that it is manageable.

It's a good product but the price could be lowered. It's expensive. The total cost of ownership is a very important figure against quality and performance and pricing. It should be the total package and that is the reason why I think this is a very good product.

I have been using this solution for one year. 

It is stable.

It is scalable. The system is built for customers.

I have not needed technical support. Until now I don't need technical support.

We also used Dell, HPE, and sometimes Cisco.

VxBlock has good performance, so that is an advantage.

The initial setup was straightforward. I have to do maintenance on it. That is the reason why I was searching for this kind of information.

I would rate it an eight out of ten.

In the next release, I would like to see more performance, but every three months they increase this figure already.

We use the solution for database applications, using all the core features. We're a customer of VxBlock.

The most valuable features of the solution would be its good default features and the compressions. Those are the features we use regularly.  

For VxBlock, the consistency of disc quality could be improved. 

I've been using this solution for almost six years. 

The product is very stable. 

The product is scalable. 

We've used technical support from time to time and they are very good. 

We made some comparisons with other products - WMC and HP 3par but have never used them. 

Setup is fairly straightforward, deployment took between two and three weeks. 

I would rate this product a nine out of 10. 

We use this solution in our clearance and distribution department.

We are using this solution for virtualization with Hyper-V. Our entire infrastructure is Hyper-V, and it's working fine. We have a twenty-eight blade system with E-SATA storage, which is fantastic and very fast.

This is an on-premises deployment.

We completely replaced our old data center using this solution. We used to have around one hundred and fifty blades, two storage devices, two Cisco SAN Directors, and a lot of fibre cables. We have replaced all of this with just two VxBlock cabinets. It is very fast and very neat. There are no wires outside.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed. We have a legacy data center that is separated from the blades. It used to be very slow, and now it is very fast.

We have had no trouble with backups.

This solution does not support Hyper-V, and we would like the new version to be supported and certified to work with Hyper-V. It only supports VMware. We need this as a virtualization solution for the hardware.

This is a stable solution.

Our experience has been very good and we are considering increasing our usage of this solution by adding blades. Our local partner has told us that we can extend this solution using another cabinet.

We do not contact technical support directly. Rather, we go through our partner for which we have a support contract. Our local partner takes care of monitoring the status of our system.

If we need to then we are able to open support tickets.

We replaced our entire legacy data center using this solution.

There was an issue because of the Hyper-V, but after it was configured, everything worked very nicely.

We had a VMware group from the UAE assist us with the implementation.

We purchased this solution with a ten-year manufacturer warranty, and we have a three-year warranty with our local partner.

This is a solution that I recommend for others.

The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this solution is that the vision for technology is always changing. As administrators, we worry about new technology because if one thing goes wrong in a cabinet that contains everything, how much will be affected? So far, nothing has happened and everything is working nicely. It is very good.

This solution ships from the manufacturer with VMware, but our Hyper-V is working fine. We expected to have an issue, but it works.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.