We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS, IBM PurePower System, and SteelFusion 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."Backup, restore, and ease of deployment are the most valuable features."
"The vendor delivers a fully-configured prebuilt system with a certain baseline on it."
"It runs our VMs. Our SQL databases are all on VMs, so everything is virtualized."
"The flexibility and data deduplication have been the biggest practical applications."
"It scales easily. We went through an upgrade of adding additional chassis, and it wasn't a big deal."
"It reduces the time required to dynamically provide applications to our end users and developers."
"The ease of set up is probably the most valuable feature for us."
"This solution has helped to make more things consistent within our organization."
"We never have any issues or glitches."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"Maybe in the future, they could include the HCI solution into the mix."
"We would like to see the automation improved because there has been a learning curve having to create the workflows."
"I'd like them to bring back the GUI for NetApp ONTAP. They changed the interface in version 9.8, and it's not great. In 9.9 they've tried to bring it back a little bit, but it's still not great."
"The interface is a little convoluted."
"It is not as easy as a hyperconverged solution, but you are going to have a hard time finding that anywhere, where you can just plugin and run a deployment app."
"Both NetApp and Cisco need to do improvements in their day-to-day operations management upgrades."
"The upgrade process needs to be improved and it would be nice to manage everything from a single pane of glass."
"There is always room for improvement. I believe we can do hot swaps on the fly. On the release upgrades, if there was a way to do a release on the fly, that would really be cool because it does take some downtime. It takes restarting. It is more of a software thing. Customers hate doing releases."
"The management is really difficult when it comes to systems with traditional services."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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