We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS, IBM PurePower System, and IBM VersaStack 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."It's less resource-intensive, given that it comes in a package."
"It is scaling to our needs. We don't have any issues."
"We have absolutely been able to save space."
"I like the combination of the brands that they decided to include, in terms of its compatibility, e.g., they integrated UCS into this solution."
"The ease at which it scales and its redundancy factors. It's extremely redundant and easy-to-scale."
"NetApp is always coming up with features that I want before I know that I want them."
"The Cisco Validated Designs are the most valuable feature along with the Industry-leading technology, put together; and the fact that it just works."
"CVDs reduce risks for implementations. We always make sure that all installations are based on best practices."
"We never have any issues or glitches."
"The solution has high IOPS and the I/O is important because it gives us more transactions per second."
"Replication and DR implementation became faster."
"The combination of Cisco's architecture and IBM's flash technology. Cisco provides FI technology which provides one simple architecture. IBM's flash technology is fast."
"It would be helpful to have more flexibility for adding other components."
"The tool is obsolete and we are migrating to HPE. It should improve the pricing."
"Parts of the initial setup were complex, especially on the networking side."
"I'd like to see a little bit simpler management pane. Using UCS Director to front everything is good but for a lot of that upper mid-market, it's probably a little bit of overkill for what they need. They just want a nice, simply portal to go through and see what's going on. So if there was something that was middle of the road, it would be well received."
"The initial setup for FlexPod is complex."
"I think they can always improve, whether it's dedupe or compression, those algorithms; and flash through better SSDs."
"Not a ten because it could always be cheaper, it could always be faster."
"We dislike going online with the robot stuff. Many times, it has delayed our reaching out to a real support engineer."
"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
"Raw data mapping for storage should be a given option."
"The solution should improve deduplication to get a lot of savings."
Earn 20 points
