FlexPod XCS Use of Solution
We have been using it since 2019. So, it has been four years since we started using it.
View full review »Cisco UCS came out in 2009 and I have been on the scene since. FlexPod came next enhancing the UCS offering with a marriage of UCS and NetApp storage.
View full review »I have been using it for over six years.
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FlexPod XCS
July 2025

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We are a system integrator who does multiple projects as well as supporting our customers. We have been doing this for about four to five years.
View full review »I have been using FlexPod for six years. I'm in my seventh year now.
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Carlos Fafetine
Director of Product and Customer Management Services at CEDSIF - Ministry of Finance
I have been working with the product for 11 years.
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Joshua Maurer
FlexPod Architect
I've been using the solution since 2012.
View full review »We've been using FlexPod for about eight years.
View full review »I have been using it for about 10 years altogether. Since we have been using NetApp and Cisco devices for several years. Since FlexPod has been available, we have been using it.
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Sarthak Bhutani
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have been using it for somewhere around three to four years.
View full review »I started using FlexPod in 2017, and the last time I used it was in January 2022.
View full review »I've been using FlexPod for more than five years.
View full review »I used it at a previous job for about six months and we evaluated it at my current organization for 90 days.
View full review »I've been using the solution since 2010.
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KyleKnox
Systems Engineer at First Ontario Credit Union
I have been using it at my current company for years. I also used it for about two years at another company before where I am now.
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We have been using this solution for about eight years.
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We have been using this solution for six or seven years.
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J. Kelly
Principal Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I just started working with it. I have only been with my company for about six weeks.
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More than two years.
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Almost four years.
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I have been using it for eight years.
View full review »I have been using the product for ten years.
View full review »I have been working with the product since September.
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Felipe Andrade
Virtualization/Storage Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
We have been using the solution for nine years.
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Ricardo Perazzolo
Service Delivery Director at VORTEX TI
I've been using FlexPod for ten+ years.
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Aklilu Shifera
Systems Engineer at Symbol Technologies PLC
We have been in this business for a few years, but I joined this company five years ago. I've been working with FlexPod since I started at the company. My first task was implementing a storage system using FlexPod for some university clients.
View full review »I have been using FlexPod for the last eight years.
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JustinMoses
Director of Data Center Operations at Barry University
We have been using this solution since 2003.
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We put it in about two and a half years ago.
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Mohit Mittal
AGM at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We've been using FlexPod for four or five months.
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Darrell Monroe
Infrastructure Engineer at TechnipFMC
Between three and four years.
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Three to five years.
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EK
EricKutyla
Senior System Administrator at Bell Canada
Trial/evaluations only.
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Jegan Chinnu
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
One to three years.
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Three to five years.
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Three to five years.
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One to three years.
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Dan Scullen
Senior Systems Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
More than five years.
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One to three years.
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More than five years.
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Alan-Crouch
Senior IT Manager at Vocera
More than five years.
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Will Bashlor
Manager of IT Services at a comms service provider
One to three years.
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More than five years.
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Casey Riffel
Lead of the Server and Storage Team at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
One to three years.
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More than five years.
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Brian Foulks
System Engineer at Missile Defense Agency
Three to five years.
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Tariq Ejaz
Systems Manager at Marcum
Three to five years.
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Troy Brick Margelofsky
Solutions Architect Team Lead at CDW
More than five years.
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Three to five years.
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Jan Willem Varossieau
Consultant Technical at Vosko
One to three years.
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JP
Joseph Pontillo
Information Systems Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
One to three years.
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Less than one year.
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Alex Pop
Network Systems Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Three to five years.
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Ed Osterholt
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
One to three years.
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Kevin Henderson
Information Security Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
More than five years.
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Sreenivas H
IT Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Three to five years.
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One to three years.
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Three to five years.
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More than five years.
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Mark Reboli
Network/Telecom/IT Security Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
More than five years.
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Three to five years.
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Aaron Hibbard
Senior Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
More than five years.
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More than five years.
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Three to five years.
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Less than one year.
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Three to five years.
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One to three years.
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More than five years.
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Less than one year.
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About three years.
We've been using it more than five years.
View full review »I have been using FlexPod since 2012.
View full review »About six to eight months.
About five years now.
Six or seven years.
We have had it for six years.
View full review »Probably two to three years.
View full review »Three years.
View full review »About five years now.
View full review »Two years.
View full review »The company was using it before I got there. I have been there for about four years, so at least four years.
I started working on NetApp products in 2008.
View full review »About four months.
View full review »Two and a half years.
View full review »It's been six months, since it was implemented. Currently, we provide the back-end storage to the FlexPod.
View full review »Five and a half years.
We've had FlexPod in our environment for, I would say about six to nine months. We brought it in to help one of our applications called Petrel. It's IO intensive. It's an application that petrophysicists use to look for oil. That's what they're using it for, so they need performance for projects.
About three years.
View full review »For the company it's going on two and a half years. And we're still deploying new ones out.
We've been using FlexPods onsite for four to five years.
About four years.
About a year.
In our environment FlexPod has been used for, I think, more than three years now.
Since 2013.
View full review »My current company has used this solution prior to when I started. I have been working with it for two years.
At a previous company, I used it back in the mid-2000s when Cisco first started coming out with UCS. My previous company evaluated it then and implemented it with EMC along with NetApp to backup storage.
View full review »At least ten years, at this and another company.
View full review »Several months.
View full review »About three years.
View full review »The All Flash FlexPod was deployed two years ago. We've been using that app with UCS for approximately six years. There was no down time for the All Flash. Maybe there was one day of down time for configuration or transition, but that's about it.
View full review »I've only been here for a year, and we've had it the entire year I've been here. In the last year, there's been no downtime due to the equipment.
View full review »We've been using NetApp since 2004, and we've evolved to FlexPod in 2009. I've been involved in the steps all the way, and we've had a great relationship with our integrators, NetApp in general, with Cisco, and VMware.
View full review »We've had FlexPod for five to six years and we have not had any downtime.
View full review »We've been using for eight to ten years and we never had any downtime. It's been a great product for us.
View full review »We have been using this going on four years.
View full review »We have been using this solution for three years.
View full review »We have been using this for four years.
View full review »We have been using it for two years now.
View full review »I have used this for the last four years.
View full review »We have been using it for two years all over the place. We haven't had one UCS or NetApp hardware problem on any of the FlexPods the whole time.
View full review »We’ve had it for three years.
View full review »I have been using it for about three-and-a-half years.
View full review »We've been using FlexPod for just over three years.
View full review »I have been using it for about a year and a half.
View full review »I have been using for the past year.
View full review »We've been running it six years now.
View full review »We have been using it for about three-and-a-half years.
View full review »I've used it for one year.
View full review »We’ve been using it since 2009.
View full review »I’ve been dealing with them for three to four years and its just sound equipment.
View full review »We have been using it about a year and a half.
View full review »We have been using the components (VMware, Cisco and IBM) since 2001.
View full review »We’re still implementing it.
View full review »We have been using NetApp for over 10 years, almost 15 years at this point.
View full review »We have been using it for three to five months.
View full review »I have been using and installing FlexPods for the past three years. I have installed FlexPods in multiple environments as well as with multiple models of hardware.
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FlexPod XCS
July 2025

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