We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and HPE SimpliVity 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 product is very stable and it does what it needs to do."
"FlexPod has affected the workload of our network admin team awesomely. We have fewer employees. It's good."
"Because we use it everywhere, it is standard to set up. Therefore, if you can manage the set up in one place, then you can manage the whole infrastructure."
"Integrated support: It is all under one support contract."
"This solution has helped to make more things consistent within our organization."
"The most valuable features of this solution are efficiency and simplicity."
"If the network or site is down, you just need to go to a single vendor. You don't have to open up multiple cases with each vendor to get things done. That is one of the financial benefits of this solution."
"It's a kind of one-stop shop as far as support goes."
"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."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"A very small package but with lots of memory and CPU."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"We would like to have a single pane of glass available for it. It is something that the management in the business would like to have."
"I would like to see better operations, a single pane of glass to manage and monitor the entire design across VMware, Cisco, etc. I would also like the upgrade process to be a little smoother."
"With the next solution, if there is a virtual Flex part where we can deploy it to private clouds or in public clouds rather tying up the hardware, it would reduce costs and complexity. Then, we could do a lot more automation."
"We would like more integration with some other HCI solutions so we can take advantage of other opportunities."
"The cost may be high compared to other solutions."
"There are apparently some new products coming around the whole FlexPod side of things with regards to auditing, to ensure everything is configured correctly. It's basically a "delta" if there have been any changes. It's important to us, from a support perspective, to know if there have been changes and what impact they have actually had."
"I would like to see the following: Support for multiple vendors' hardware; support for SAN with Cisco 9000 switches; automated deployment and configuration with respect to CVD."
"According to the product managers, there are some new products coming which will address some of our concerns around portability and compliance."
"Product doesn't scale."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"Needs decoupling of distributed data fabric to run in a hyperscale deployment outside the hypervisor on dedicated nodes."
"Simplify the backup and restore: With integrated backup and remote replication, it could reduce risk and eliminates the use of legacy data tools."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
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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