FlexPod XCS Use of Solution

Chris Haight - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solutions Architect at CDW Canada Inc.

Cisco UCS came out in 2009 and I have been on the scene since. FlexPod came next enhancing the UCS offering with a marriage of UCS and NetApp storage.

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Bob Greenwald - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have been using FlexPod for six years. I'm in my seventh year now. 

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JM
FlexPod Architect

I've been using the solution since 2012.

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Buyer's Guide
FlexPod XCS
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about FlexPod XCS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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John Kevin - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy IT Manager at MBBank

We have been using it since 2019. So, it has been four years since we started using it. 

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Christian Schuster - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Designer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are a system integrator who does multiple projects as well as supporting our customers. We have been doing this for about four to five years.

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Neil Bembridge - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We've been using FlexPod for about eight years.

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CF
Director of Product and Customer Management Services at CEDSIF - Ministry of Finance

I have been working with the product for 11 years. 

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SL
Infrastructure Lead at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

I have been using it for over six years.

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DS
Senior Systems Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
More than five years. View full review »
it_user481791 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Customer Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have used this for the last four years.

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KK
Systems Engineer at First Ontario Credit Union
I have been using it at my current company for years. I also used it for about two years at another company before where I am now. View full review »
DM
Infrastructure Engineer at TechnipFMC
Between three and four years. View full review »
EG
Data Center Manager at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
Less than one year. View full review »
YY
Director of Board at a training & coaching company with 51-200 employees

I started using FlexPod in 2017, and the last time I used it was in January 2022.

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SA
Sysadmin at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

I have been using it for about 10 years altogether. Since we have been using NetApp and Cisco devices for several years. Since FlexPod has been available, we have been using it.

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LM
Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Almost four years. View full review »
RP
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
One to three years. View full review »
MR
Network/Telecom/IT Security Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
More than five years. View full review »
it_user750753 - PeerSpot reviewer
It Specialist at US EPA

Five and a half years.

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EK
Senior System Administrator at Bell Canada
Trial/evaluations only. View full review »
AC
Senior IT Manager at Vocera
More than five years. View full review »
AH
Senior Systems Engineer at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
More than five years. View full review »
AS
Chief Technology Officer at Triana Business Solutions Lda

I've been using the solution since 2010.

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JJ
Principal Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I just started working with it. I have only been with my company for about six weeks.

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RM
Senior Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Three to five years. View full review »
NN
System Consultant at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have been using it for eight years.

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DB
Senior Systems Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees
We have been using this solution for about eight years. View full review »
JM
Director of Data Center Operations at Barry University
We have been using this solution since 2003. View full review »
it_user527316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at McLean-Fogg

We have been using it for about three-and-a-half years.

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GS
Network Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I used it at a previous job for about six months and we evaluated it at my current organization for 90 days.

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SK
Sr Systems Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using FlexPod for the last eight years.

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RB
Cloud Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have been using this solution for six or seven years. View full review »
CR
Lead of the Server and Storage Team at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
One to three years. View full review »
TB
Solutions Architect Team Lead at CDW
More than five years. View full review »
SH
IT Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Three to five years. View full review »
it_user750555 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at Energysolutions

At least ten years, at this and another company.

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it_user527316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at McLean-Fogg

We've been using FlexPod for just over three years.

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David Rechsteiner - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have been working with the product since September. 

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WB
Manager of IT Services at a comms service provider
One to three years. View full review »
BF
System Engineer at Missile Defense Agency
Three to five years. View full review »
TE
Systems Manager at Marcum
Three to five years. View full review »
it_user870267 - PeerSpot reviewer
It Managed Services Provider at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
More than five years. View full review »
it_user699807 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The All Flash FlexPod was deployed two years ago. We've been using that app with UCS for approximately six years. There was no down time for the All Flash. Maybe there was one day of down time for configuration or transition, but that's about it.

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SW
Storage Administrator at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have been using the product for ten years. 

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JW
Engagement Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I've been using FlexPod for more than five years.

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JC
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
One to three years. View full review »
DA
Executive Director Of IT at a university
One to three years. View full review »
it_user527265 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect at JWS Consult

We've been running it six years now.

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HB
Network Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees
More than two years. View full review »
it_user750858 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user750843 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

About a year.

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it_user692457 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter manager at Defenders

We have been using this for four years.

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it_user330093 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Specialist - Lead Enterprise Storage Administrator at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been using NetApp for over 10 years, almost 15 years at this point.

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JF
Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Three to five years. View full review »
MP
Capacity Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
One to three years. View full review »
SB
Site Reliability Engineer 2 at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have been using it for somewhere around three to four years.

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AS
Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We put it in about two and a half years ago. View full review »
BP
Senior Storage Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
More than five years. View full review »
it_user750681 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Engineer at Amtrust Financials

About three years.

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it_user527253 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We’ve had it for three years.

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FA
Virtualization/Storage Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

We have been using the solution for nine years.

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it_user865494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Three to five years. View full review »
it_user750597 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

For the company it's going on two and a half years. And we're still deploying new ones out.

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it_user750813 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've been using FlexPods onsite for four to five years.

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it_user750594 - PeerSpot reviewer
Admin at Tower International

My current company has used this solution prior to when I started. I have been working with it for two years.

At a previous company, I used it back in the mid-2000s when Cisco first started coming out with UCS. My previous company evaluated it then and implemented it with EMC along with NetApp to backup storage.

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it_user699828 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at Broncos football club

We've been using NetApp since 2004, and we've evolved to FlexPod in 2009. I've been involved in the steps all the way, and we've had a great relationship with our integrators, NetApp in general, with Cisco, and VMware.

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it_user692451 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager with 201-500 employees

We have been using it for two years now.

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it_user330843 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

We’ve been using it since 2009.

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RP
Service Delivery Director at VORTEX TI

I've been using FlexPod for ten+ years.

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it_user979815 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Three to five years. View full review »
JV
Consultant Technical at Vosko
One to three years. View full review »
JP
Information Systems Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
One to three years. View full review »
it_user750825 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It's been six months, since it was implemented. Currently, we provide the back-end storage to the FlexPod.

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it_user527268 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Systems Engineering at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been using it for two years all over the place. We haven't had one UCS or NetApp hardware problem on any of the FlexPods the whole time.

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it_user330117 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
it_user328077 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We have been using it for three to five months.

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AP
Network Systems Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Three to five years. View full review »
BD
Infrastructure Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Three to five years. View full review »
it_user750801 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior It Analyst at a energy/utilities company

We've had FlexPod in our environment for, I would say about six to nine months. We brought it in to help one of our applications called Petrel. It's IO intensive. It's an application that petrophysicists use to look for oil. That's what they're using it for, so they need performance for projects.

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it_user750822 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Jones Walker Llp

About four years.

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it_user750612 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user699843 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of technology with 10,001+ employees

We've been using for eight to ten years and we never had any downtime. It's been a great product for us.

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it_user699822 - PeerSpot reviewer
Exec director of enterprise it services

We have been using this going on four years.

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it_user527208 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Sys Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using it for about a year and a half.

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it_user330603 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using and installing FlexPods for the past three years. I have installed FlexPods in multiple environments as well as with multiple models of hardware.

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EO
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
One to three years. View full review »
KH
Information Security Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
More than five years. View full review »
JB
Senior systems manager at a transportation company with 201-500 employees
More than five years. View full review »
it_user298266 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Leader – Storage & Security at CoreLogic RP Data

About three years.

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it_user527259 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using FlexPod since 2012.

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it_user750783 - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Leader at a consultancy

Probably two to three years.

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it_user318444 - PeerSpot reviewer
Advisory Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

About five years now.

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it_user750648 - PeerSpot reviewer
It Infrastructure Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

About four months.

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it_user527076 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Team Lead & IT Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been using it for about three-and-a-half years.

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MM
AGM at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We've been using FlexPod for four or five months. View full review »
TT
Virtualization Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
More than five years. View full review »
it_user865491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Less than one year. View full review »
it_user750738 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst at Muscogee Creek Nation Casinos

We have had it for six years.

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it_user692454 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior systems admin

We have been using this solution for three years.

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it_user750846 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Admin at Tats Consultancy Services

In our environment FlexPod has been used for, I think, more than three years now.

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JB
Senior systems manager at a transportation company with 201-500 employees

We've had FlexPod for five to six years and we have not had any downtime.

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AS
Systems Engineer at Symbol Technologies PLC

We have been in this business for a few years, but I joined this company five years ago. I've been working with FlexPod since I started at the company. My first task was implementing a storage system using FlexPod for some university clients.

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it_user750741 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Consultant at Long View Systems

We've been using it more than five years.

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it_user750810 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company

About five years now.

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it_user750837 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
it_user750687 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a financial services firm

The company was using it before I got there. I have been there for about four years, so at least four years.

I started working on NetApp products in 2008.

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it_user750624 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Infrastructure Services at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Two and a half years.

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it_user527067 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. SaaS Operation Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I have been using for the past year.

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it_user330111 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We’re still implementing it.

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it_user699801 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise systems engineer

I've only been here for a year, and we've had it the entire year I've been here. In the last year, there's been no downtime due to the equipment.

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it_user252573 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Architect and Business Consultant
One to three years. View full review »
it_user332622 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I've used it for one year.

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it_user330312 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I’ve been dealing with them for three to four years and its just sound equipment.

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it_user330144 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have been using the components (VMware, Cisco and IBM) since 2001.

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TD
Technical Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Three to five years. View full review »
JS
Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
More than five years. View full review »
it_user862512 - PeerSpot reviewer
Private Cloud Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
More than five years. View full review »
RH
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Three to five years. View full review »
it_user748320 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

About three years.

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it_user330300 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT - Server Operations at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have been using it about a year and a half.

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it_user750831 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm

About six to eight months.

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it_user750531 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Operator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Several months.

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it_user319338 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Innovation at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Three to five years. View full review »
it_user750768 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Storage Engineer at Digital River

Six or seven years.

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it_user798375 - PeerSpot reviewer
PMO Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Less than one year. View full review »
Buyer's Guide
FlexPod XCS
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about FlexPod XCS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.