We performed a comparison between Dell XC Appliance [EOL] and FlexPod XCS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"The most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"The solution's hardware is great."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and the compression features."
"The most valuable feature is that you can assign a volume to an off-shore workload on the fly."
"What I like the most is that it is easy to implement, easy deployment and that it's easy to manage."
"The solution's best feature is its simplicity. It's so simple to deploy it. You've got the VMware, and it's own appliance. It is really helpful. The system is online within half a day and saves so much time."
"The most valuable feature is the low management overhead, and the lower skill set required to manage it."
"When we compare it to normal hardware servers, I'd say it is quite easy to configure and deploy."
"It is an easy, straightforward system to set up and maintain."
"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."
"The validated design is really important for us because it gives us a model on which to base our architecture and continued support for all firmware upgrades. It also provides consistency throughout the environment."
"We initially started out with siloed clusters and now we've been able to cluster everything together so that we have multiple nodes in our clusters. We have multiples on different data in different data centers. We've able to do replication between data centers. That's been very beneficial for us as we look to derive a mature DR model."
"It's all converged into one consolidated platform, which works well together."
"FlexPod has affected the workload of our network admin team awesomely. We have fewer employees. It's good."
"It's a new architecture, really scalable and programmable. When you look at SDN propositions it fits very well in a next-gen data center."
"The solution can be innovative when it comes to compute storage and networking. FlexPod is very flexible and innovative. We can design it as we like."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"There should be more provisioning capabilities within the solution."
"Currently, there is no support for the servers that are not in the cluster."
"The cost of using the public cloud deployment is astronomical."
"The solution's storage size could be improved."
"Dell needs to do a lot of work to simplify the maintenance and life-cycle upgrades for the product."
"We are not always advised of new features or updates, so we must research to stay up to date."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Docker and containers."
"I would like to see them reduce the complexity, that would be my number one request because. Right now, doing simple things is pretty complex. You have so many options. It might be better if it were more wizard-driven, as opposed to going through five hundred dials. It's not very easy or intuitive."
"Upgrades are always scary because you just don't know. Nobody has six or seven different systems sitting around that you can test on before you go into production data."
"There have been issues upgrading the firmware."
"I would like to see a more centralized support model."
"We want always more speed, capacity, fluidity, and growth that we can easily integrate."
"The tool is obsolete and we are migrating to HPE. It should improve the pricing."
"The initial learning curve is pretty steep."
"We have had a bit of struggle on the support side. From a customer perspective, it has been up to us to make sure that we get both NetApp and Cisco involved when we have had an issue."
Dell XC Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.0, while FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XC Appliance [EOL] writes "Turnkey solution with low management costs that is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Dell XC Appliance [EOL] is most compared with , whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System.
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