We performed a comparison between Dell VxBlock System and FlexPod XCS 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."Good default features."
"It's a highly optimized piece of equipment that doesn't give us any problems."
"Virtual machines for the infrastructure."
"Integration with VMware and VMotion definitely brings a lot of value."
"Its performance is very good."
"VxBlock has good performance, so that is an advantage."
"The monitoring and management parts are the most valuable. Monitoring is specifically valuable because you have one console to monitor everything. This console is called Vision."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed."
"CVDs reduce risks for implementations. We always make sure that all installations are based on best practices."
"It scales easily. We went through an upgrade of adding additional chassis, and it wasn't a big deal."
"It can scale, compute, and storage independently by what we need."
"The solution has decreased the unplanned downtime incidents in our organization by 25 to 30 percent."
"It allowed us to scale out as our business grew without any issues."
"It is a complete solution."
"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."
"It is extremely stable and well-supported because of the leadership and partnerships put in place."
"Lacks flexibility with third-party applications."
"This solution does not support Hyper-V, and we would like the new version to be supported and certified to work with Hyper-V."
"The consistency of disc quality could be improved."
"We are finding it a bit challenging in terms of the management of a specific VxBlock component. Currently, we have different units as a part of the block storage. We have one for Cisco equipment and one for Dell. When we have an issue in the infrastructure, Dell EMC VxBlock System should automatically detect it and send a notification to VC support, but, unfortunately, it is doing that only for one unit. It is not working for Cisco components. We have informed them about this area of improvement, and they are working on this. The way different parts are integrated should be improved. We should have one console to log in to see all the infrastructure in terms of each machine and hardware."
"It's a good product but the price could be lowered. It's expensive."
"The solution could use a clearer description of working methods to tell people more about its use cases."
"The only thing that I can say is when you procure the VxBlock, obviously you have to complete detailed questionnaires about your architecture including the configuration, et cetera. If you make a mistake on the implementation, then you need to rebuild the entire VxBlock. That is just a point of consideration rather than a flaw. You need to be absolutely sure and validate the upfront configuration information that you provide because your VxBlock comes delivered and built, according to that exact information."
"Scalability is an area that needs to be improved."
"Both NetApp and Cisco need to do improvements in their day-to-day operations management upgrades."
"Setting up a Cisco USC environment can be complex."
"I would think more cloud integration, a lot more flexibility with adapting to different things."
"I would like to see more orchestration tools in FlexPod because we virtually end up with integrating the v-orchestration tool within FlexPod. I would like to see something like that included within FlexPod."
"We would like better management of cases. For example, if you open a FlexPod case, it's not always straightforward. It would be nice to have centralized resource to open FlexPod cases and ease up management of our cases."
"I would like to see more cloud-centric modules that are specific to applications and more software-based solutions. That's all that is missing."
"I would like to see increased performance."
"FlexPod should focus more on automation. Integrating an automation tool with FlexPod would enable customers to leverage automation capabilities."
Dell VxBlock System is ranked 4th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Dell VxBlock System is rated 7.8, while FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell VxBlock System writes "Can be deployed quickly, is easy to manage, and is stable and resilient". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Dell VxBlock System is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, Dell Vscale Architecture, IBM VersaStack, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and HPE ConvergedSystem, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Dell VxBlock System vs. FlexPod XCS report.
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