We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and HPE StoreVirtual 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."It provides ease of automation."
"Going from the old monolithic server and silo storage that they used to use is an improvement. With the FlexPod solution, just being able to manage and monitor the overall environment helps."
"The ease of expansion is the most valuable feature."
"Backup, restore, and ease of deployment are the most valuable features."
"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."
"The flexibility, operational efficiency, and scalability of FlexPod has been a huge factor for us because our customers have workloads that need to run on classical HTTPs, flash storage, or possibly in the cloud. This flexibility and enhanced ability of the solution is very important for this. We trust in it."
"It is pretty flexible. We are able to deploy faster."
"Our data center rack space collapsed and our manpower decreased."
"It's very stable and it's easy to use."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"A very flexible solution."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"I guess on the top of the list is certainly ease of use."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"The network RAID feature gives us maximum availability, since we cannot afford any downtime, even for a second."
"The integration between both companies, Cisco and NetApp, is very good but it still needs to be enhanced in terms of visibility and observability."
"I would like to see more storage-related features."
"We would like to have more monitoring and reporting, because today some of the reporting, and if you purchase it separately is expensive. We use OnCommand Unified Manager today, which is great, but we are looking for more of that."
"We don't see the much DR capability within the FlexPod so for that, we have to maintain our own DR capability with DSRM."
"I would like to see more interoperability within FlexPods. This comes into more of how we grow from multiple domains to a massive domain."
"I would like to see better operations, a single pane of glass to manage and monitor the entire design across VMware, Cisco, etc. I would also like the upgrade process to be a little smoother."
"One of the things that I've wanted would be availability of a health status, similar to Active IQ from my converged platform, on an app. I have dashboards so I can see the health of the system when I'm in the office, but when I'm not in the office I can't."
"The solution could be improved by including automation for user updates."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"In our country, Qatar, most of the industry isn't using too much HP. StoreVirtual doesn't move fast. It's not a popular product."
"I would like to have this solution easily integrate with VMware."
"The penalty for the availability is performance. So, you have to balance or choose between the availability and the performance."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System, whereas HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and StarWind Virtual Tape Library.
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