We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."It is absolutely resilient. It has built-in redundancy and multipathing. If there is an issue with one part, it doesn't fail automatically."
"I would rate technical support as a 10 out of 10. They are good and responsive."
"It's less resource-intensive, given that it comes in a package."
"UCS Profiles enable recovering a physical server in less than 15 minutes."
"This solution has given us a great deal of on-site storage that we didn't have before."
"We enjoy the standardization and having things consistent across the whole data center sphere."
"It is definitely easier for us to maintain and do build-outs, so it takes a lot less time to set things up for the customer."
"FlexPod is the primary solution we recommend for clients with high-availability server requirements. Our clients find FlexPod's management helpful. You can manage everything via plugins."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"The solution is very stable."
"What I like about SimpliVity is the brand value of HP. I also like the data compression ratio, which is around more than 75% data compression ratio. HP's support and the ease of working with SimpliVity are also valuable features."
"The storage efficiency is valuable."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"I would like to see more cloud-centric modules that are specific to applications and more software-based solutions. That's all that is missing."
"We would like one-click upgrades."
"As the technology grows, we're looking to upgrade our storage systems to something faster, and we're hoping to improve our servers with next-generation technology. So we want to enhance our server infrastructure and explore server virtualization with VMware. That's the improvement that our clients are demanding."
"The solution could be improved by including automation for user updates."
"This solution is very hard to maintain and keep up."
"We would like better management of cases. For example, if you open a FlexPod case, it's not always straightforward. It would be nice to have centralized resource to open FlexPod cases and ease up management of our cases."
"We would like to have more monitoring and reporting, because today some of the reporting, and if you purchase it separately is expensive. We use OnCommand Unified Manager today, which is great, but we are looking for more of that."
"FlexPod XCS' pricing could be cheaper. You need to find the right person for support."
"I think the licensing cost could be lower."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"The installation process could be simplified. It's a bit technical for non-IT users."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Dell PowerFlex.
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