We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and SteelFusion 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."FlexPod is the primary solution we recommend for clients with high-availability server requirements. Our clients find FlexPod's management helpful. You can manage everything via plugins."
"The guides that we use to install FlexPods are always up-to-date. This is really helpful, especially if there is a new product with NetApp moving so far forward and Cisco as well. For them to join together and update a centralized document for the install process, it is really good. It helps us understand if there are features from the first version that we installed while upgrading that we need to implement. Those are in the document. So, we find that document useful and helpful when moving forward."
"For FlexPod, it is always trustworthy. I had previously never seen flex machines from other brands or associated with other products. FlexPod is a large investment and they are good enough to support it."
"It ships in a rack, so it is very easy to deploy."
"The main advantage is consolidating everything into a single rack, which helps optimize power consumption, especially in CRM."
"The tool's most valuable features are the flexibility and ability to adapt to redundancy."
"We have significantly less latency now with our imagery."
"It is scaling to our needs. We don't have any issues."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"They should have an easier user interface to get it up and running."
"FlexPod can improve with a single control management interface to manage all aspects and components of the solution."
"There are apparently some new products coming around the whole FlexPod side of things with regards to auditing, to ensure everything is configured correctly. It's basically a "delta" if there have been any changes. It's important to us, from a support perspective, to know if there have been changes and what impact they have actually had."
"FlexPod XCS needs to improve its pricing."
"I'd like to see a little more on the provisioning and the replication piece... Also, I don't want to say analytics are lacking but I'd like to see more analytics."
"If they could reduce some of the complexity at the system manager level for ONTAP. I find it gives a lot of flexibility. You can do as much or as little as you want. But to be able to do as little as you want, you do have to do a lot. So, if they could bring that down to a more manageable effort level, that would be nice and simplify it a bit."
"With the UCS X-Series, I would like to see the fabric interconnects in the chassis. Instead of hanging out so the chassis is 7U, you are increasing your footprint to 9U with the fabric enhancer, where some of the competing solutions are 7U and have collapsed that network fabric into the chassis. This is another thing that I would like to see from Cisco, though not really on the NetApp side since that is pretty solid."
"The initial learning curve is pretty steep."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 26th in HCI. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell VxBlock System, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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