We performed a comparison between Dell Vscale Architecture and FlexPod XCS 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."Vscale's scalability is super good. Vscale's scalability, manageability, and performance are all three areas that I emphasize when I sell Vscale Architectures to the customer."
"It simplifies infrastructure from edge to port to cloud. It proves that deployment is easy and straightforward. There isn't any need to do extra work."
"The documentation alone that NetApp provides can guide anybody through the setup process."
"The fact that it can run the entire stack in terms of protocols. The integration for most of our customers is VMware; the full-stack integration. Also, the ability to do rapid cloning."
"Our downtime has significantly been reduced."
"FlexPod has affected the workload of our network admin team awesomely. We have fewer employees. It's good."
"It runs very well lights out. Set it and forget it."
"It took a server room where we had 280 servers and another with 180 and condensed them from 15 racks down to three racks. It's helping us in the data center with all our environmentals... In addition, we're getting the ability of VMware, which is virtualization, so now we have redundancy on all of our boxes, instead of them being physical."
"The ease at which it scales and its redundancy factors. It's extremely redundant and easy-to-scale."
"In terms of what could be improved, I particularly think the scope of automation is very much limited. So they should introduce some more STK's and API's for automation first thing."
"There are certain things that are just hard to do on a physical infrastructure, like for instance you need to make petabytes of data available at high speed."
"We would like them to have better features to integrate with the cloud."
"I would like to see the following: Support for multiple vendors' hardware; support for SAN with Cisco 9000 switches; automated deployment and configuration with respect to CVD."
"FlexPod has not decreased the unplanned downtime incidents in our company. There was a problem with the back-end configuration and we had a downtime of three hours."
"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."
"It would be nice to have something like an automated, upgrade solution The tasks needed to upgrade the hardware within FlexPod are still quite behind compared to some of its other aspects. That's more on the Cisco side."
"I would like to have the installation of the top virtualization on its own rather than doing it through the admin. For example, if FlexPod is configured after the configuration of the host, the ESXi is installed also, but it should be part of it rather than doing it as a separate system."
"They should cram more space in there and find a way to compress things more; dedupe better."
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Dell Vscale Architecture is ranked 9th in Converged Infrastructure while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Dell Vscale Architecture is rated 8.0, while FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell Vscale Architecture writes "Intuitive, robust, manageable, and agile ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Dell Vscale Architecture is most compared with Dell VxBlock System, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VxRail.
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