We performed a comparison between Dell Vscale Architecture and FlexPod XCS 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."Vscale's scalability is super good. Vscale's scalability, manageability, and performance are all three areas that I emphasize when I sell Vscale Architectures to the customer."
"It scales easily. We went through an upgrade of adding additional chassis, and it wasn't a big deal."
"UCS Profiles enable recovering a physical server in less than 15 minutes."
"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 allowed us to scale out as our business grew without any issues."
"It provides us with a lot of agility, on-demand or through orchestrations. We deliver hundreds of servers."
"It is a complete solution."
"It's a kind of one-stop shop as far as support goes."
"For our DR, we rely heavily on SnapMirror technologies to accomplish our disaster recovery in VMware SRM."
"In terms of what could be improved, I particularly think the scope of automation is very much limited. So they should introduce some more STK's and API's for automation first thing."
"The tool is obsolete and we are migrating to HPE. It should improve the pricing."
"The technical support is slightly above average. I would like them to have quicker escalation"
"The initial setup was complex. UCS is not the easiest thing to configure from the ground up. The networking pieces can get confusing, especially when you are talking about virtual segmentation. It is not as easy as other things now on the market, such as hyperconverged."
"They need to improve the user interface to make it easier to work in this environment. The older version is poor."
"One of the things that I've wanted would be availability of a health status, similar to Active IQ from my converged platform, on an app. I have dashboards so I can see the health of the system when I'm in the office, but when I'm not in the office I can't."
"On the NetApp side, there are definitely things to improve in terms of software updates."
"The management interface of the UCS part of it is a little bit clunky. It uses Java, so when we're managing it, if I have a computer that doesn't have Java on it or has the wrong version of Java on it, there's some iterations that have to happen to get into the manager of it."
"We want always more speed, capacity, fluidity, and growth that we can easily integrate."
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Dell Vscale Architecture is ranked 9th in Converged Infrastructure while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Dell Vscale Architecture is rated 8.0, while FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell Vscale Architecture writes "Intuitive, robust, manageable, and agile ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Dell Vscale Architecture is most compared with Dell VxBlock System, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VxRail.
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