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."The benefit is the speed, it's the performance. That's what it comes down to is the performance of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that there is one call for support."
"The overall versatility and validate designs are great. We previously used a different platform, but we gained a lot of utilization with FlexPod."
"Gives us a single point of contact for support."
"I really like the architecture and I like the fact that on the storage side I can swap it out. Right now I'm on NetApp, I might go to Pure Storage. I have the flexibility. But as far as the equipment itself, the way it's all bundled together, from the UCS perspective, its rock solid."
"The solution suits converged infrastructures, where the customer gets a complete system with Cisco servers, NetApp Storage, and Cisco switches."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the flexibility in configuration and the setup."
"It definitely streamlined operations. TCO-wise, it reduced cabling in the architecture. So, there has definitely been some savings. There have been a lot of reductions in the IT admin's time: reduced time to troubleshoot, reduced time to inventory the infrastructure, and reduced time to set up a host with templates and storage. The solution is saving easily 10 hours a week in time."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"One of the solution's strong points is the deduplication capabilities of SimpliVity."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The biggest thing that I would like to see is more cost-effective FlexPod solutions."
"The GPU based VDA solutions could use improvement."
"Because when you try to do automation, there are many bits and pieces tied together. Sometimes, automation gets a little tricky for provisioning."
"The biggest problem we have seen is, we were using the vStorage which comes with the NetApp environment, a kind of fiber connect. We were missing fibre channel connectivity and we got lots of I/O errors."
"Make it easier to refresh hardware. We got to the point where we couldn't fix vulnerabilities without refreshing the hardware, then that became a little too expensive for us to do."
"I think they can always improve, whether it's dedupe or compression, those algorithms; and flash through better SSDs."
"If you have expertise setting up such environments, then you are good, but for customers or novices, it becomes a nightmare and stuff may actually be left out."
"I would like to see programmability into a SaaS-based offering, as I know Cisco's going in a lot of directions with their Intersight application."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"The solution is not very stable."
"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."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"One problem I've had is that I was trying to do a move and it was not working. I was given an error and a message asking me to shut down the machine first and then move it to another host."
"Could be more secure and more economical."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"In the Hyper Converged environment, some of the brands only support the OS VMware and not Hyper-V from Microsoft or even Red Hat or KVM."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th 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, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity.
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