We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and VxRail 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 virtual environment is a lot more efficient than physical boxes."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the stability."
"The main advantage is consolidating everything into a single rack, which helps optimize power consumption, especially in CRM."
"It scales well. It allows us to have very flexible architecture but to have the same level of simplicity that we'd normally expect in hyper-converged environments."
"FlexPod has improved our company as far as ease of management, stability, and redundancy."
"Performance-wise, it is actually doing quite well. The end users are very happy with it."
"The ability to converge a lot of different data and platforms into a single common platform, then scale horizontally and vertically."
"It has simplified our support."
"Valuable features for us are the VDI, UCC, and HCI."
"Updating the product has been very easy."
"My customers use it for VDI. It has been very usable and very fast to use with VDI. On the VxRail side also, it has been very fast."
"The stability continues to get better and better. It's pretty reliable."
"Initial setup is straightforward, as everything is pre-installed."
"The manageability for controlling the console is the most valuable feature."
"The assurance that my systems would not suffer a performance drop no matter where they are is valuable. I do not need any extra hardware."
"The simplicity and manageability of VxRail are most valuable. We have a very good experience with this product. Its stability and scalability are also very good."
"There could be room for improvement in terms of offering more flexibility in CBD options."
"It is not as easy as a hyperconverged solution, but you are going to have a hard time finding that anywhere, where you can just plugin and run a deployment app."
"The initial learning curve is pretty steep."
"I would be interested to see more integration with other applications."
"Newer platform reference architectures take a long time to harden and be publicly available."
"The upgrades should be improved. We would like to have the ability to do unified upgrades of the whole infrastructure from beginning to end."
"For the next release, because I know that we are using Pure Storage, what I want to see is the GUI interfaces on this UCS monitor."
"I would like to see a more centralized support model."
"I would like to have a unified platform where I, for example, can manage my 50 stores from a single portal in VxRail and be able to apply all the updates at once. I want to unify them into a centralized console."
"I wish for the performance environment to be improved."
"It needs faster deployment of security patches."
"They need to keep upgrading the environment and improving automation so that the solution keeps getting better and better."
"The fact that is based on vSAN is the main issue of this solution."
"What I did not like so much was the amount of VMware that you have to put in your system related to the VxRail."
"In the version that I was working with, the integrations are in need of improvement."
"The only issue which is every now and again is that when you log in it will tell you that there's an issue with VxRail when there actually isn't. All that's required is a refresh or reload. The solution itself works but you may get some bad reports every now and again. Probably once every couple of months; there is no effect to the solution's capabilities."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell VxBlock System and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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