We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Vblock [EOL] 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 most significant benefit is storage flexibility. FlexPod is a reference design to build on and add the appropriate resources you need for your workloads. That's what differentiates it from something like HCI, where you have to buy certain size pieces when you want to expand."
"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."
"We enjoy the standardization and having things consistent across the whole data center sphere."
"It simplifies everything. It gives you a single place to go if you need support or if you need to expand."
"The solution can be innovative when it comes to cloud computing storage and networking."
"It's a kind of one-stop shop as far as support goes."
"Integration is most valuable. This is a reference architecture. So, we don't have to design something from scratch and figure out how it is going to work."
"We initially started out with siloed clusters and now we've been able to cluster everything together so that we have multiple nodes in our clusters. We have multiples on different data in different data centers. We've able to do replication between data centers. That's been very beneficial for us as we look to derive a mature DR model."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"There are certain things that are just hard to do on a physical infrastructure, like for instance you need to make petabytes of data available at high speed."
"Automatic tiering would be good to have."
"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."
"Hyper-V is not as well supported by NetApp and Cisco as VMware is, which is something that should be improved."
"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."
"The technical support is slightly above average. I would like them to have quicker escalation"
"The only support call that we have had in six years was related to an ONTAP upgrade, where one of the controllers didn't patch properly."
"It would be great to see some form of interoperability between the FAS units and the E-Series, specifically for replication, even if it is just one more replication from a FAS to an E-Series. That would be amazing."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"The integration with other vendors' products needs to be looked at. It's not as flexible as we would like it to be."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Vblock [EOL] 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 Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata, VxRail and Dell VxBlock System, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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