We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Pivot3 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."Performance-wise, it is actually doing quite well. The end users are very happy with it."
"The data is available, compressed, and deduped."
"The solution’s unified support for the entire stack is critically important because we cannot afford downtime."
"Technical support has been good when we have contacted them in the past. They have been helpful."
"Because we use it everywhere, it is standard to set up. Therefore, if you can manage the set up in one place, then you can manage the whole infrastructure."
"The ability to converge a lot of different data and platforms into a single common platform, then scale horizontally and vertically."
"The vendor delivers a fully-configured prebuilt system with a certain baseline on it."
"We save days of work when doing new service deployments. With LUN clones we have a template provisioned for the image of our hypervisor on our NetApps, and we can deploy a brand new hypervisor in under an hour. Everything is scripted. We just clone a template LUN and boot from SAN, so there are no single points of failure."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"We would like to see a new design that comes with more productivity or graphics. Currently, the vendors, like HPE and Dell EMC along with NetApp, all have very similar products. We want more diversification."
"The tool is obsolete and we are migrating to HPE. It should improve the pricing."
"The GPU based VDA solutions could use improvement."
"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."
"The solution could be improved by including automation for user updates."
"There have been issues upgrading the firmware."
"Upgrades are always scary because you just don't know. Nobody has six or seven different systems sitting around that you can test on before you go into production data."
"Because when you try to do automation, there are many bits and pieces tied together. Sometimes, automation gets a little tricky for provisioning."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata, VxRail and Dell VxBlock System, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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