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."One of the easiest solutions to implement, maintain, and scale."
"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."
"That it works. That it does exactly what it says on the tin."
"DR has been tremendously easier."
"It has never fallen out from under us when we were trying to do a critical push."
"The storage efficiency and performance are valuable."
"The consistent delivery that we receive from the products. We deliver it to different customers, and we know it will be a consistent end-to-end solution as well."
"The most valuable feature is the one support. Anytime that a customer buys a solution for a server, storage, or network, once they have trouble in their environment, everyone wants to find out who was wrong. With FlexPod, everyone is wrong and there is unified support. The best way to solve the problem is have it be everyone's problem, not just one person's problem. For FlexPod, you can call NetApp or Cisco, and I think it's the best way to solve the problem that the customer has."
"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."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"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."
"Setting up a Cisco USC environment can be complex."
"Something that we struggle with because we're a relatively small scale organization and the administrative effort is spread across so many different pieces of infrastructure, it would be nice to have a set of tools that enables us to get a little bit more information out of our system."
"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'd like them to bring back the GUI for NetApp ONTAP. They changed the interface in version 9.8, and it's not great. In 9.9 they've tried to bring it back a little bit, but it's still not great."
"It would be helpful if they sold a pre-boxed option so that you can buy a rack and everything's already there, everything's connected."
"It takes a very sophisticated group of people to run and maintain NetApp and Cisco products."
"The initial setup was complex. UCS is not the easiest thing to configure from the ground up. The networking pieces can get confusing, especially when you are talking about virtual segmentation. It is not as easy as other things now on the market, such as hyperconverged."
"The tool is obsolete and we are migrating to HPE. It should improve the pricing."
"Providing local technical support and improving the price are areas this service needs to consider improving."
"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."
"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."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
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, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Oracle Exadata and VMware vSAN, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity.
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