We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and HPE Hyper Converged 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."It simplifies everything. It gives you a single place to go if you need support or if you need to expand."
"The real benefit of this solution is that it is pre-architected with the ability to scale-up and scale-out."
"The ease of expansion is the most valuable feature."
"From the integration standpoint, it is a lot easier to integrate than a lot of people initially felt. Being able to leverage either block or file capabilities of the storage is something that has been beneficial."
"There are very many features, but from experience, the single point of contact for support has been valuable to our customers."
"For anyone who needs the flexibility of moving around profiles from physical device to physical device, it really adds an additional layer of virtualization."
"The initial setup is not complex. It is user-friendly since it is a single solution with all the components delivered in one package."
"The solution can be innovative when it comes to cloud computing storage and networking."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"The provisioning is very fast. It’s not a problem for us to achieve the goals of the client."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"Ease of management, as I come from a software background, and I'm responsible for IT overall. I can get in there and turn some nuts and bolts and make things happen without any trouble."
"It is a stable solution...Those who want flexibility, ease of use, and a simple support system can opt for HPE."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"We would like more integration with some other HCI solutions so we can take advantage of other opportunities."
"They could improve their technical support team. They need to have a specific phone number for you to call in for the FlexPod solution. Some of the partner support knows if it is for FlexPod, they will get you to the right department."
"FlexPod will do very well on the average app, but there's room for improvement in performance and the data center side."
"The ability to manage the templates across sites. We would like to easily take out the configuration of one FlexPod and copy it over, just making minor changes. There is a way to do it, but it's clumsy."
"It would be very helpful if the upgrades for Cisco, VMware, and NetApp could be bundled together and performed at the same time."
"There are too many drivers and software combined all together, and we need to have compatibility between all of them."
"I would like to see more cloud-centric modules that are specific to applications and more software-based solutions. That's all that is missing."
"With the UCS X-Series, I would like to see the fabric interconnects in the chassis. Instead of hanging out so the chassis is 7U, you are increasing your footprint to 9U with the fabric enhancer, where some of the competing solutions are 7U and have collapsed that network fabric into the chassis. This is another thing that I would like to see from Cisco, though not really on the NetApp side since that is pretty solid."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"The solution is not very stable."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 33 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series.
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