We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS 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."With the components that come in FlexPod, it has enabled us to reduce connectivity down to one wire, whereas before, we had eight, 12, or 20 wires going to one server."
"The solution’s unified support for the entire stack provides one stop shopping."
"The product is robust, stable, and has flexibility."
"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."
"The feature I have found most valuable is data protection."
"CVDs reduce risks for implementations. We always make sure that all installations are based on best practices."
"We have significantly less latency now with our imagery."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the flexibility in configuration and the setup."
"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."
"The biggest thing that I would like to see is more cost-effective FlexPod solutions."
"There were several different management consoles that we had to deal with: UCS, VMware, and separate ESXi installations. Maybe one interface council where we could manage everything from might be a little easier."
"I would like them to simplify the UCS configuration. I appreciate that they have about a billion options and a million switches that you can mess with, but this creates a lot of confusion sometimes. I feel like you almost need a Master's course to figure out what you're doing with UCS."
"Because when you try to do automation, there are many bits and pieces tied together. Sometimes, automation gets a little tricky for provisioning."
"There are too many drivers and software combined all together, and we need to have compatibility between all of them."
"As the industry as a whole is moving more toward the simplification of IT, that is something where both Cisco and NetApp could look to improve further. Just simplifying the day to day management, the day to day issues that arise, and building more intuitiveness into the interfaces would help."
"Sometimes, it can take awhile for support cases to get to the right people, especially if it's not a P1 case."
"The FAS in it, with all its flexibility and scalability, it is much more complex and could be simplified."
"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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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Dell VxBlock System, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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