We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS 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."The most valuable feature is ease of deployment. Once I deploy the chassis and I have the back-end storage, configuring more UCS servers is very quick. I can deploy a new UCS server within minutes."
"Our downtime has significantly been reduced."
"The ease of set up is probably the most valuable feature for us."
"The real benefit of this solution is that it is pre-architected with the ability to scale-up and scale-out."
"You can add more boxes and you can have more IOPS available if you want. It's very easy to add new hardware to the cluster."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It is all interface-based, so point and click."
"It is the overall collaboration between NetApp and Cisco to come up with a product that is best in class and best in breed. You are bringing together the best things about UCS and NetApp, as well as you are tying it together with the Nexus fabric."
"The virtual environment is a lot more efficient than physical boxes."
"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 nice to have something like an automated, upgrade solution The tasks needed to upgrade the hardware within FlexPod are still quite behind compared to some of its other aspects. That's more on the Cisco side."
"Parts of the initial setup were complex, especially on the networking side."
"Automatic tiering would be good to have."
"Cisco support is much slower. Opening cases with Cisco tech is sometimes a bit tedious. The return time for less important calls can be slower. Even Priority 1 calls can sometimes be a bit long and they will have to call me back."
"There are too many management products: System Insight Manager, Oakum, etc. There are a lot of them and you have to know which one to use at which time. Whereas, with competitors, they have a single pane of glass view which has everything in it."
"As we do much of the Tier-I support ourselves, and thus don't normally need it, there is time wasted in moving up to the next level."
"The only support call that we have had in six years was related to an ONTAP upgrade, where one of the controllers didn't patch properly."
"Perhaps having a unified interface for managing the entire company could lead to improved efficiency and performance."
"Raw data mapping for storage should be a given option."
"The solution should improve deduplication to get a lot of savings."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while IBM VersaStack is ranked 8th in Converged Infrastructure with 3 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while IBM VersaStack 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 IBM VersaStack writes "A very high IOPS that gives more I/O transactions per second". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System, whereas IBM VersaStack is most compared with Dell VxBlock System.
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