We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and Vblock [EOL] 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."The tool's most valuable features are the flexibility and ability to adapt to redundancy."
"FlexPod has affected the workload of our network admin team awesomely. We have fewer employees. It's good."
"Backup, restore, and ease of deployment are the most valuable features."
"The data is available, compressed, and deduped."
"FlexPod impacted us by making things easier to deploy. The solution is a private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environment. That's very important to us. We're doing a lot of hybrid cloud."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automation point because it's a lot less staff to have to manage it."
"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."
"With FlexPod, it is about the synergy of the server, the storage, and the whole management layer. Together, it is really about minimizing staff. You don't have to hire more people. You can work with the minimum level of resources and the availability is really good. We have had very little downtime."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Systems run solidly."
"It has improved system performance, batch times for off-hours processing, and reliability with production applications."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"Support could be more integrated. For example, you might call NetApp, and they'll determine that VMware is the issue. It would be helpful if they could automatically engage VMware and bring them onto the same call to transfer ticket information and work together."
"According to the product managers, there are some new products coming which will address some of our concerns around portability and compliance."
"Hardware stability needs improvement. We replaced a lot of RAM this past year. We had to replace the complete blade once after extensive troubleshooting. Any given time, we have approximately one blade down within the entire infrastructure, unfortunately."
"We would like more integration with some other HCI solutions so we can take advantage of other opportunities."
"I would like them to integrate the NVIDIA GRID into the system, so we could easily deploy certain solutions with the FlexPod."
"The solution has not reduced our data center costs."
"If you have expertise setting up such environments, then you are good, but for customers or novices, it becomes a nightmare and stuff may actually be left out."
"The upgrades should be improved. We would like to have the ability to do unified upgrades of the whole infrastructure from beginning to end."
"OEM services requires too much planning and low availability of certified engineers."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"With respect to the technical support, there is room for improvement."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
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FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Converged Infrastructure. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata, VxRail and Dell VxBlock System, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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