We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and VxRail 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."Large and small companies do not have time to design the compute, the amount of storage, and how it works together. They are buying pre-proven, pretested solutions with reference architectures already in place."
"The product is robust, stable, and has flexibility."
"I live by the Validated Designs. I do exactly what those designs say and I haven't had a problem as a result. For example, they used to do the FCoE. They figured out there was a problem and they went over to the NFS. I moved over and I agreed with them. It worked better."
"High availability is outstanding. We haven't had any problems with that."
"It is a very well-thought-out solution with great virtualization. A good option we have is mapping a storage LUN onto an ESX cluster. That way, in case a particular ESX is down, it can migrate (using vMotion) to another host in the cluster, resulting in high-availability."
"UCS Profiles enable recovering a physical server in less than 15 minutes."
"We have had great support, and this is when we have called for any problems, which have been very minimal to start with."
"Our footprint is lower than it used to be."
"Valuable features for us are the VDI, UCC, and HCI."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar environments."
"With VxRail, we can manage the life cycle of a virtual machine."
"When we have a resource contention, we can easily increase the capacity."
"t's a very good solution with multiple options with VxRail series like based on customer requirements whether they're focused on compute, storage, scalability and high performance, etc. Whether a customer you are going to start your IT Infrastructure footprint with a limited budget, you have freedom of choice and non-disruptive expansion in the future, whether in the main data center or branches. Any idea coming in system admins mind to run this setup continuously and keep service 100% 24/7 is possible in this product line. Hyper-converged appliances allow a datacenter in a box approach, with G, E P, Vand P series."
"Updating the product has been very easy."
"The recent technologies and management features that have been implemented."
"The most compelling aspect of VxRail lies in its unwavering guarantee of sustained performance for my systems, regardless of their geographical distribution."
"I would like to see more interoperability within FlexPods. This comes into more of how we grow from multiple domains to a massive domain."
"There could be room for improvement in terms of offering more flexibility in CBD options."
"They just announced that they are going to move it along with Intersight from Cisco. That can be a private or public cloud, which is one of the areas where it can grow more and has a lot of potential."
"Newer platform reference architectures take a long time to harden and be publicly available."
"I would like more support for different platforms, possibly different database platforms. I don't know if it supports Oracle today, but that would be a big improvement."
"The tool is obsolete and we are migrating to HPE. It should improve the pricing."
"The ability to manage the templates across sites. We would like to easily take out the configuration of one FlexPod and copy it over, just making minor changes. There is a way to do it, but it's clumsy."
"I think they are working on it, but I would like to be able to log into a portal and see the end-to-end solution and understand where it stands, from a supportability perspective."
"The only issue which is every now and again is that when you log in it will tell you that there's an issue with VxRail when there actually isn't. All that's required is a refresh or reload. The solution itself works but you may get some bad reports every now and again. Probably once every couple of months; there is no effect to the solution's capabilities."
"The update for the graphics integration and the media drivers isn't included in the VxRail update."
"The fact that is based on vSAN is the main issue of this solution."
"The initial setup was not that easy, it was a medium difficulty level."
"They need to keep upgrading the environment and improving automation so that the solution keeps getting better and better."
"The licensing is a bit too costly."
"The search feature isn't good."
"Pricing could be improved."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while VxRail 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata, Dell VxBlock System and HPE Hyper Converged, whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and IBM Spectrum Virtualize.
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