We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Software flexibility. Everything is fully configurable. The reliability results from the design. Elements are well projected (disks, blade, network, etc.). No single point of failure is identifiable."
"It's a new architecture, really scalable and programmable. When you look at SDN propositions it fits very well in a next-gen data center."
"The product is robust, stable, and has flexibility."
"The solution's granular scalability and broad application support helps us to meet the needs of diverse workloads."
"The most valuable thing for me is the shorter time to market."
"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."
"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."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"We can get backups faster. We have a smaller footprint for hardware, which takes up less space. So, we use less electricity and floor space."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"It is just a one-stop shop, a single appliance that I can control through my virtual center."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"We would like more security features."
"The interface is a little convoluted."
"Automatic tiering would be good to have."
"I would like to see more interoperability within FlexPods. This comes into more of how we grow from multiple domains to a massive domain."
"The solution could be improved by including automation for user updates."
"I would like to see a more centralized support model."
"Parts of the initial setup were complex, especially on the networking side."
"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."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"It crashes often. When one particular VM has random, large IOPS requests, it will bog down the node, and there isn't enough time for the replica to be brought up. So all the VMs on that one particular node will essentially become offline."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
"The interface is good but takes some time to get used to."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while HPE SimpliVity 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Dell PowerFlex.
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