We performed a comparison between Dell Vscale Architecture and FlexPod XCS 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."Vscale's scalability is super good. Vscale's scalability, manageability, and performance are all three areas that I emphasize when I sell Vscale Architectures to the customer."
"ONTAP is the core of FlexPod, so its most valuable features are: FlexClone, Snapshot, and SnapCenter."
"All-flash storage and low latency I/O enhance performance."
"From the Cisco side, the most valuable features of this solution are the data center density, the deployment, and the management of the servers and the networking."
"The product is easy to deploy and use."
"It has never fallen out from under us when we were trying to do a critical push."
"Our performance increase has been about 15 percent from what we previously used."
"We have absolutely been able to save space."
"Technical support has been good when we have contacted them in the past. They have been helpful."
"In terms of what could be improved, I particularly think the scope of automation is very much limited. So they should introduce some more STK's and API's for automation first thing."
"I would be interested to see more integration with other applications."
"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."
"On the NetApp side, there are definitely things to improve in terms of software updates."
"The last two calls that I have made to NetApp support have been handled too casually. People are too lax, not quite as professional as I would have liked."
"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."
"Sometimes, when the newer versions of any of the partners’ firmware or software come out, there's still sometimes a lag of the partners to support all of those new components."
"The technical support is slightly above average. I would like them to have quicker escalation"
"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."
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Dell Vscale Architecture is ranked 9th in Converged Infrastructure while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Dell Vscale Architecture is rated 8.0, while FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell Vscale Architecture writes "Intuitive, robust, manageable, and agile ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Dell Vscale Architecture is most compared with Dell VxBlock System, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata, VxRail and Dell VxBlock System.
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