Dell VxBlock System Reviews

Name: Dell VxBlock System
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4 (13 reviews)

3.9 out of 5

13 reviews
92% willing to recommend

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What is Dell VxBlock System?

VxBlock and Vblock Systems simplify all aspects of IT and enable organizations to achieve better business outcomes faster. Seamlessly integrating enterprise-class compute, network, storage and virtualization technologies from industry leaders Cisco, Dell EMC, and VMware, VxBlock and Vblock Systems, powered by Intel Xeon processors, deliver the world's most advanced converged infrastructure: engineered, manufactured, managed, supported and sustained as one, allowing you to focus on your business.

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Dell VxBlock System is the #4 ranked solution in top Converged Infrastructure solutions. PeerSpot users give Dell VxBlock System an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Dell VxBlock System is most commonly compared to Dell PowerFlex: Dell VxBlock System vs Dell PowerFlex. Dell VxBlock System is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 66% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a government, accounting for 14% of all views.

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SamuelOguta

Head IT Infrastructure & Operations at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

With respect to performance, support, and visibility for administration to know exactly what is happening, it's a fine solution. However, we are being forced to buy new equipment because Dell has said that they will not support the equipment we purchased only a year ago. Therefore, if you are considering Dell VxBlock System, you would need to make sure that you are clear on when the end of life will be for your equipment or when you may be forced to buy a new one because of the lack of support from Dell. The technology timeline is not very clear. In terms of the performance, resiliency, and the stability of the system alone, I would rate Dell VxBlock System at nine out of ten, but overall, I would rate it at eight out of ten because of the issues with disparate ownership of components and the unclear technology timelines.

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AKINJIDE OKE

Senior Sales Engineer / Team Lead Datacentre Solutions & Applications at ARIT OF AFRICA

Customers use the Dell VxBlock System for new applications or solutions. For example, I'm working on a new mixing solution for a whole country in Africa. When we talk about it, there are many locations, and we're looking for efficiency, utilization, and solutions that can expand the application database we're deploying. It's used a lot for server consolidation and to consolidate environments into new ones for easy management. It's also used in health environments where they need to create infrastructure for products or solutions they want to launch to the market quickly. The most valuable features for clients' operations include management of the virtualized environment, node management, configuration deployment, and system management with artificial intelligence. Hyperconverged solutions help organizations achieve multiple frames, mainly in management. Instead of having three, four, or five people managing different servers, you can now concentrate on one or two people to do all those things, maybe for machine learning, while having one person manage the infrastructure. The integrated components improve IT efficiency by allowing us to spin up an environment quickly for any solution or department without going through rigorous stress. We can do this within one or two digits of time. It also allows full utilization of resources. For example, if a department needs a certain amount of processing power, memory, and disk space, we can provision exactly what they require. When they need more, we can easily increase or decrease resources. This efficiency in provisioning reduces time to value - what might take eight months to achieve can be done in a day or two in this environment. Integration is very seamless if you know what you're doing. We always do our due diligence before deployment, using Dell applications to size the environment properly. I haven't encountered any difficulties integrating, even with storage systems for large organizations.

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Mohamed Abdu

IT Consultant at Ministry of Education

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.

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Dell VxBlock System mindshare

As of September 2024, the mindshare of Dell VxBlock System in the Converged Infrastructure category stands at 15.7%, down from 19.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"Customers use the Dell VxBlock System for new applications or solutions. For example, I'm working on a new mixing solution for a whole country in Africa. When we talk about it, there are many locations, and we're looking for efficiency, utilization, and solutions that can expand the application database we're deploying. It's used a lot for server consolidation and to consolidate environments into new ones for easy management. It's also used in health environments where they need to create infrastructure for products or solutions they want to launch to the market quickly."
"With a converged infrastructure, it's easy to troubleshoot from network to server issues from a single point of reference."
"In comparison to traditional file load systems, Dell VxBlock System can be deployed quickly and results in monthly cost savings."

Room for Improvement

"I'd like to see more simplification regarding integration, deployment, and connectivity for future releases. In deployment, I'd like to see simplification in creating VNets and positioning VMware across nodes. I want a template that simplifies the creation of VNets and VMware positioning. I'd push for more simplification and an intuitive graphical GUI that simplifies things with just a click."
"The solution could use a clearer description of working methods to tell people more about its use cases."
"There are components of VxBlock that are not managed or supported by Dell because some of the components are from Cisco. Thus, when there are problems with compute nodes, though Dell was managing the interaction, we had to rely on Cisco to solve the issue. When Cisco was not responding as quickly as Dell would for their components, it made it difficult for us because we needed to have the failed nodes back up and running. As such, the disparate ownership of components in the equipment is an issue."

Pricing

"Compared to other solutions, Dell VxBlock System is more expensive."
"Its price is high. That's why people are now moving to hyper-converge."
"We purchased this solution with a ten-year manufacturer warranty, and we have a three-year warranty with our local partner."

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10%

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Learn more about Dell VxBlock System

The Dell EMC Converged Systems portfolio offers choice, flexibility, and reliability for accelerating IT transformation - VxBlock System offers additional levels of flexibility with a choice of network virtualization from VMware NSX or Cisco ACI.

Dell EMC VxBlock System Will Help You:

Protect and consolidate your high-value workloads
Deliver cloud operations faster
Simplify life cycle management
Simplify operations
Modernize IT
Protect critical business data

With Dell EMC VxBlock System You Can:

Automate key processes
Move to a VMware-based private or hybrid cloud model
Gain ongoing validation for technologies across the stack
Mix and match SAN/LAN switches, different storage arrays, blade and rack servers, and more
Reduce patching and upgrade efforts using a turnkey system

Dell EMC VxBlock System Features:

Native data protection: Dell EMC’s data protection suite includes backup and recovery, centralized management, and replication.
Cisco C-Series servers: Dell EMC VxBlock System is now integrated with Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers, including the C220 and C240 in the M4 and M5 server lines.
Server scalability boost: You can increase server scalability by approximately 56%.
Storage mix: Dell EMC’s VxBlock System gives you the ability to mix four different types of storage arrays (Unity, VMAX, XtremIO, Isilon). It also includes multiple all-flash storage options (Unity 350F, 350F, 550F, 650F), and more.
Data center efficiency: The solution simplifies lifecycle assurance - which reduces time spent managing upgrades - and it can also reduce rack space and lower power costs.
Simpler RCM compliance: You will have simpler RCM compliance and your upgrades will feature an RCM dashboard showing the release level status of all components; You will also have access to RCM compliance score, RCM summary and detail reports, and RCM pre-positioning.
Deep CI context KPI metrics This feature includes capacity reporting and performance analytics with historical perspective.
Advanced, real-time CI-level alerting Dell EMC VxBlock System’s alerting feature includes operational state alerts, performance alerts, call home alerts, custom alerts and alert forwarding.

Dell EMC VxBlock System Benefits:

Manage more efficiently
Reduce operational risk
Simplify upgrades and assure compliance
Focus more on added-value projects
Be more agile
Reduce OPEX
Proactively manage workload health
Improve capacity planning
Resolve incidents and problems faster

Reviews from Real Users:

“It's a highly optimized piece of equipment that doesn't give us any problems." - Architect at a manufacturing company

"It's at least 99 percent problem-free because it's factory-built. So from an informational point of view, everyone trusts that VxBlock has been tested well at the factory and has been configured to their requirements.” - General Manager, Enterprise Technical Solution at a tech services company

"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.” - Data center Manager at a financial services firm

Dell VxBlock System was previously known as VxBlock, VCE VxBlock System, Dell EMC VxBlock, VxBlock 1000.

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Dell VxBlock System customers

Atos, Canadian Pacific, IDS, City of Denton, CenturyLink, BNP Paribas, Asyaport, EDF, CSC, Fox Sports, Insight, Hunter, KPIT, Paetec, Rosetta Stone, Sonda, Switch, Xerox