We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and HPE SimpliVity 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 best thing about this solution is the tight integration with VMware, Cisco, and NetApp from both a hardware and software perspective."
"It is innovative because it's bare metal and you can customize it easily. This brings a lot of benefits to the solution."
"It is scaling to our needs. We don't have any issues."
"Everything is preconfigured. We can ship it and manage it remotely from any server. It is all in a box."
"It took a server room where we had 280 servers and another with 180 and condensed them from 15 racks down to three racks. It's helping us in the data center with all our environmentals... In addition, we're getting the ability of VMware, which is virtualization, so now we have redundancy on all of our boxes, instead of them being physical."
"The solution is resilient, because it has good scalability, and other products in the market don't have this. It has scalable storage and service."
"It provides ease of automation."
"The consistent delivery that we receive from the products. We deliver it to different customers, and we know it will be a consistent end-to-end solution as well."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"Has good performance and ease of use"
"The way it does backups is its most valuable feature. It replicates snapshots with very low bandwidth. We only have a 50 megabit link to that site, and it doesn't really use much of it at all. Therefore, it is a really good fit for getting our backups done."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"FlexPod XCS needs to improve its pricing."
"The initial learning curve is pretty steep."
"We would like one-click upgrades."
"The FlexPod service and support could be improved."
"It would be very helpful if the upgrades for Cisco, VMware, and NetApp could be bundled together and performed at the same time."
"I would like to see more orchestration tools in FlexPod because we virtually end up with integrating the v-orchestration tool within FlexPod. I would like to see something like that included within FlexPod."
"I would like to see a more centralized support model."
"Setting up a Cisco USC environment can be complex."
"I have some worries about the support after the acquisition. The support was better before HPE acquired SimpliVity."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"It is not so cheap, and this is the most common complaint that my customers have. It is a very good product, but the price is an issue in Latin America. VMware is a de facto tool. It would be useful for customers if HP can also use Red Hat or any other open-source virtualization product. Currently, you can only use VMware to manage the machines inside SimpliVity."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"There are some small changes that can be made to the interface to improve it but it typically works well."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while HPE SimpliVity 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 HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System, whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Dell PowerFlex.
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