We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and IBM PurePower System 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."CVDs reduce risks for implementations. We always make sure that all installations are based on best practices."
"It runs very well lights out. Set it and forget it."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It is all interface-based, so point and click."
"The virtual environment is a lot more efficient than physical boxes."
"The consistent delivery that we receive from the products. We deliver it to different customers, and we know it will be a consistent end-to-end solution as well."
"When you open the box, they give you a very nice diagram. Which was my initial guide through setting up any NetApp SAN. It worked itself out pretty well."
"The ease at which it scales and its redundancy factors. It's extremely redundant and easy-to-scale."
"It has been very stable. There has been no downtime."
"We never have any issues or glitches."
"It would be very helpful if the upgrades for Cisco, VMware, and NetApp could be bundled together and performed at the same time."
"We use technical support from time to time. Most of the time if we really need assistance we end up having to get above the tier one support. We're able to do a lot of the tier one troubleshooting on our own."
"FlexPod will do very well on the average app, but there's room for improvement in performance and the data center side."
"The initial setup for FlexPod is complex."
"Make it easier to refresh hardware. We got to the point where we couldn't fix vulnerabilities without refreshing the hardware, then that became a little too expensive for us to do."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"I would like to see increased performance."
"I'd like to see some more Ansible integration for automation purposes. We automate everything else with Ansible, so it would be great if we could automate our FlexPod with Ansible as well."
"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while IBM PurePower System is ranked 11th in Converged Infrastructure. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while IBM PurePower System 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 PurePower System writes "Easy to work on and has never had any glitches or issues ". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System, whereas IBM PurePower System is most compared with .
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