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 virtual environment is a lot more efficient than physical boxes."
"Our performance increase has been about 15 percent from what we previously used."
"The flexibility and data deduplication have been the biggest practical applications."
"It makes us more lateral and faster to production."
"The storage efficiency and performance are valuable."
"The solution’s validated designs for major enterprise apps in our organization are very important. It's basically become critical to our organization to have that system functioning a 100 percent of the time. If that system is not functional, then our doctors and nurses can't provide the care to the patients in an effective way. So, it's important that it is stable, works, and easy to understand."
"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."
"Since the addition of nodes, it is all automated now. What would normally take us around three to five hours in the past, has come down to 15 minutes to half an hour, creating a significant gain in time."
"No concerns or issues with stability."
"The most valuable feature was its time to delivery."
"One of the good features would be the fast backup solution Hyper Converged offers, which is more efficient compared to other vendors."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"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."
"The product enables me to use any software or database."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"Because when you try to do automation, there are many bits and pieces tied together. Sometimes, automation gets a little tricky for provisioning."
"A progress bar would...be pretty cool."
"They should cram more space in there and find a way to compress things more; dedupe better."
"The initial setup for FlexPod is complex."
"I would like to see them reduce the complexity, that would be my number one request because. Right now, doing simple things is pretty complex. You have so many options. It might be better if it were more wizard-driven, as opposed to going through five hundred dials. It's not very easy or intuitive."
"I think they can always improve, whether it's dedupe or compression, those algorithms; and flash through better SSDs."
"I would like them to simplify the UCS configuration. I appreciate that they have about a billion options and a million switches that you can mess with, but this creates a lot of confusion sometimes. I feel like you almost need a Master's course to figure out what you're doing with UCS."
"Not a ten because it could always be cheaper, it could always be faster."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"The solution is not very stable."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"I think that OneView should be replaced by something else for the management."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"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."
"Some improvement is required in the availability of the data and performance. The solution is too expensive for our customers. The pricing should be lower."
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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