Dell VxBlock System 1000 vs. Infinio

VBlock is extremely well-suited for reliable delivery of virtualized mixed workloads. VBlock provides necessary hardware abstraction that allows for, uninterrupted by hardware failures, continuous delivery of critical services that otherwise do not provide hardware failure resiliency. VBlock is not the best solution from a financial standpoint for cost-sensitive solutions that are programmed for software resiliency.

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Infinio is best suited for infrastructure that has high-latency read IO performance challenges. It does nothing to help write IO, so keep in mind the type of workload for which you need to reduce latency. If you have traditional SAS or SATA storage, Infinio has a tremendous impact on the response time of many applications. You can build your cluster's caching pool from either available RAM or an internal drive inside each host. This flexibility helps Infinio to be suitable across many types of environments.

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• Single contact for vendor support.
• Fully Tested and integrated.
• Best of breed products combined.

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• Citrix system boot time and application opening much faster
• SQL database efficiency

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• Product is not simple to manage.
• Product is very expensive. Documentation is too complicated to understand.

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• The interface needs a way to allow for RBAC so everyone is not an admin.
• Alerts should be configurable whenever a VM or host is not functioning correctly.

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Support has always been helpful and responsive. Upgrades can be guided and scheduled so you can be confident that things will go smoothly. The product issues have been minimal and the support team has always done a great job at getting back to me with the recommended fixes that solved my problems.

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Local expertise and vendor presenece

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Infinio has no real market competition. There was a tool called Pernix FVP that did both read/write acceleration that I evaluated that became end-of-life while it was in POC. It was more complicated to deploy and remove than Infinio and required downtime for each host. Also, the fact that it was no longer supported made the decision to choose Infinio easy.

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• VBLock has eliminated unforced downtime occurrences in the environment.
• VBlock support model has significantly reduced amount of effort allocated to hardware installation and support activities and firmware maintenance.

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• Positive impact has been delaying large storage refresh purchases.
• Positive impact has been improving read latency without having to add infrastructure.

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