We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and IBM VersaStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Converged Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"DR has been tremendously easier."
"The most valuable feature is the one call number for support and the fact that all the documentation comes with it. They have all of the preprepared plans for the deployment model and we can just choose which one we want for VMware, etc. The hardware is all listed. We buy that and away we go. It's called validated design."
"It is innovative because it's bare metal and you can customize it easily. This brings a lot of benefits to the solution."
"It is pretty flexible. We are able to deploy faster."
"Performance-wise, it is actually doing quite well. The end users are very happy with it."
"It definitely streamlined operations. TCO-wise, it reduced cabling in the architecture. So, there has definitely been some savings. There have been a lot of reductions in the IT admin's time: reduced time to troubleshoot, reduced time to inventory the infrastructure, and reduced time to set up a host with templates and storage. The solution is saving easily 10 hours a week in time."
"The system is designed for easy scaling. Because we define everything clearly. So when we plug the system in, we apply the profile, and it scales easily."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It is all interface-based, so point and click."
"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."
"Replication and DR implementation became faster."
"The solution has high IOPS and the I/O is important because it gives us more transactions per second."
"FlexPod will do very well on the average app, but there's room for improvement in performance and the data center side."
"Some of the define features could use improvement."
"The GPU based VDA solutions could use improvement."
"I would also like to feel more support. NetApp has been pretty good, for the most part, but Cisco has more work to do. I've had very good experience with NetApp. Instead of having to call three different areas and saying, "I'm a FlexPod customer." It would be nice if it could be just one that gets routed. I know it would require three large companies to work together, but that's what would make this product a ten. They could definitely use with making it more user-friendly."
"I would like to see programmability into a SaaS-based offering, as I know Cisco's going in a lot of directions with their Intersight application."
"The FAS in it, with all its flexibility and scalability, it is much more complex and could be simplified."
"The procedure for contacting technical support could be simplified."
"We would like more integration with some other HCI solutions so we can take advantage of other opportunities."
"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, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System, whereas IBM VersaStack is most compared with Dell VxBlock System. See our FlexPod XCS vs. IBM VersaStack report.
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