We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS, Huawei FusionStorage, and Vblock [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature for me is that you can swap out pieces when you have to lifecycle your equipment."
"FlexPod’s prevalidated architectures are very important to our organization... Especially in healthcare, it is absolutely critical that we have a validated performance platform. It has to work every time."
"Since the addition of nodes, it is all automated now. What would normally take us around three to five hours in the past, has come down to 15 minutes to half an hour, creating a significant gain in time."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It is all interface-based, so point and click."
"The flexibility and data deduplication have been the biggest practical applications."
"Provides unified support: Being able to get a vendor from one company or another company on the line without having to go back through the call queue."
"The solution’s validated designs for major enterprise apps in our organization are very important. It's basically become critical to our organization to have that system functioning a 100 percent of the time. If that system is not functional, then our doctors and nurses can't provide the care to the patients in an effective way. So, it's important that it is stable, works, and easy to understand."
"It can scale, compute, and storage independently by what we need."
"Provides easy access to our data."
"In cases where system interruptions occur, it enables rapid restoration, ensuring a prompt return to normal service levels."
"Huawei FusionStorage does well in its basic functions and offers broad utility."
"The product has a very simple GUI-based management platform and it is very simple to use. There is a very easy step-by-step configuration procedure that guides you through, and you can configure it very easily."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"Systems run solidly."
"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."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"There is a lot of documentation that has to be reviewed before you go through an upgrade. It is not as straightforward as some other solutions."
"The initial learning curve is pretty steep."
"I'd like to see better integrations with some of the third-party tools, like Terraform. That would be good. We use Ansible to deploy and that's good, but it's slower than it needs to be."
"We have had a bit of struggle on the support side. From a customer perspective, it has been up to us to make sure that we get both NetApp and Cisco involved when we have had an issue."
"According to the product managers, there are some new products coming which will address some of our concerns around portability and compliance."
"FlexPod XCS needs to improve its pricing."
"We would like to have a single pane of glass available for it. It is something that the management in the business would like to have."
"There is a history of issues with hardware availability. For example, we'll buy an array or a filer with a particular configuration and particular size of drive, sizing it appropriately. Then, as we grow, they're like, "Oh, you can always get more." Then when you go to get more, that model or type of disk is no longer available. It becomes this big process to try to figure out what we need to get, how it'll work, and how that'll integrate into the system. That could be simpler. They could do a bit more to guarantee the availability of parts. Obviously, not being the largest storage vendor, I know they can't sometimes control what the hardware vendors do. However, a bit more transparency and communication about this would be helpful."
"I hope for improvements in the product's processing ability and performance."
"Their cloud services could be improved."
"The initial setup and installation is not that straightforward. It should be made easier and the time to install should be reduced."
"The product needs improvement in terms of affordability."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
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