We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and HPE Hyper Converged 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."Going from the old monolithic server and silo storage that they used to use is an improvement. With the FlexPod solution, just being able to manage and monitor the overall environment helps."
"I am happy with the stability. I haven't had any major issues with it in four years. This includes upgrades."
"Validate designs are a good. They work in the background to combine all the infrastructure and storage. They create automation which can create volumes and attach VMs directly to massive CIFS."
"It's amazingly scalable. It just works. It can expand to large MetroClusters and keep expanding."
"The feature I have found most valuable is data protection."
"The solution makes our staff more efficient, enabling them to spend time on tasks that drive our business forward. The environment is more homogeneous, so there are not as many technologies to study and learn. People can focus on improving their knowledge in existing technologies."
"All of our main applications run on this solution, and it has done a stellar job."
"It's all converged into one consolidated platform, which works well together."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"Support could be more integrated. For example, you might call NetApp, and they'll determine that VMware is the issue. It would be helpful if they could automatically engage VMware and bring them onto the same call to transfer ticket information and work together."
"I would like more orchestration and networking in-between the VMs, the virtualization layer for networking. I would like to see better tools for this."
"We don't see the much DR capability within the FlexPod so for that, we have to maintain our own DR capability with DSRM."
"The FAS in it, with all its flexibility and scalability, it is much more complex and could be simplified."
"Upgrades are always scary because you just don't know. Nobody has six or seven different systems sitting around that you can test on before you go into production data."
"The technical support is slightly above average. I would like them to have quicker escalation"
"FlexPod will do very well on the average app, but there's room for improvement in performance and the data center side."
"Some of the define features could use improvement."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"Though with HPE Hyper Converged, you get everything, the documentation part is very much required, especially if you opt for the solution's subscription-based licensing model."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"This solution is very costly."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and VMware vSAN, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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