We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Vblock [EOL] 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 solution has decreased the unplanned downtime incidents in our organization by 25 to 30 percent."
"Our customers get their applications to market more quickly, and it has taken the risk out of their business, because there is less for them to try to figure out."
"It's flexible. You can scale up or out. Our environment has never needed it, but the option has always been there."
"The most valuable feature of FlexPod is that it allows you to get the old compute storage and the network switch or the fabric of the network in one box. You can use pods to have a tiny cloud in the box, which is one of its best features."
"FlexPod's native integration with hyperscalers is one of the reasons we chose to look at it and NetApp. That is one of the key components of our infrastructure. That native integration is very important."
"This solution has helped to make more things consistent within our organization."
"I can leverage its multiple storage abilities. We have various kinds of storage in our environment, like IBM or NetApp. We can mix those types of storage with the FlexPod environment."
"The ability to converge a lot of different data and platforms into a single common platform, then scale horizontally and vertically."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"Systems run solidly."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"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."
"I think they can always improve, whether it's dedupe or compression, those algorithms; and flash through better SSDs."
"I would like to see more cloud-centric modules that are specific to applications and more software-based solutions. That's all that is missing."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Both NetApp and Cisco need to do improvements in their day-to-day operations management upgrades."
"I'd like to see a little more on the provisioning and the replication piece... Also, I don't want to say analytics are lacking but I'd like to see more analytics."
"They could improve their technical support team. They need to have a specific phone number for you to call in for the FlexPod solution. Some of the partner support knows if it is for FlexPod, they will get you to the right department."
"Since 2018 or 2019, maybe due to COVID and the chipsets, my DIMMs are dying left and right."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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