We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge VRTX and FlexPod XCS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Converged Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."With Dell PowerEdge VRTX, there are fewer points, and it is easier to troubleshoot and find your way around it."
"The security is very good on the solution."
"The system is very intuitive."
"Dell PowerEdge VRTX supports a lot of memory which has allowed us to keep our system size smaller."
"It is pretty easy to install."
"It is simple to use and it's user-friendly."
"We now find that the solution is quite stable."
"It's a good solution when you don't need a lot of IT."
"It's all converged into one consolidated platform, which works well together."
"Going from the old monolithic server and silo storage that they used to use is an improvement. With the FlexPod solution, just being able to manage and monitor the overall environment helps."
"Our performance increase has been about 15 percent from what we previously used."
"The vendor delivers a fully-configured prebuilt system with a certain baseline on it."
"It provides us with a lot of agility, on-demand or through orchestrations. We deliver hundreds of servers."
"One of the most valuable aspects is its integrated convergence infrastructure, particularly the LAN and SAN cloud features that offer a unified fabric."
"I have never seen a more resilient HA product out there then NetApp's solution. If I want to know that I'm putting my workload on a solution, from a storage perspective, that is going to be up 100% of the time, I'm going to choose NetApp."
"ONTAP is the core of FlexPod, so its most valuable features are: FlexClone, Snapshot, and SnapCenter."
"It would be better to have a compact version of this solution for customers that have a small office and don't require a proper data center with power or an industrial type HP."
"The scalability is limited with one chassis and the amount of storage it will give you, but it is mainly used for small offices."
"Dell PowerEdge VRTX can improve by providing support for M2 drives."
"VRTX is a bit simplified to the extent that it is a mainstream type of solution for small businesses. If a company needs a more complex solution or something that is a time saver or has more power or scalability, it is probably not the best solution. However, when a company grows and its needs grow, this type of environment can be definitely migrated towards a lab environment or pre-prod testing, not necessarily production. It can still have a second life for the other types of use."
"The licensing can be difficult to understand."
"The problem is with our configuration. We know we can use PowerEdge for hyper-convergence if we have PowerEdge and configure vSAN. We will be able to achieve what VxRail is being able to provide, but we need to migrate it to a new infrastructure instead of changing our existing. It will be much more difficult for us."
"The support must be improved."
"When we first started with this product, we had some difficulty with it."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"Our environment does not always require this solution, so we are not reaping the optimal ROI."
"Areas for improvement would be the support for the engineering team, who seem to have no clue when you open a case, the communication with and recognition of resellers, and the documentation, with could be more detailed."
"Updates are not frequent enough."
"There have been issues upgrading the firmware."
"FlexPods can include the new networking and new virtualization of storage and data center interconnectivity with the networking side of it. They can evolve and grow by connecting pods together."
"It takes a very sophisticated group of people to run and maintain NetApp and Cisco products."
"We have had a bit of struggle on the support side. From a customer perspective, it has been up to us to make sure that we get both NetApp and Cisco involved when we have had an issue."
Dell PowerEdge VRTX is ranked 1st in Converged Infrastructure with 16 reviews while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Dell PowerEdge VRTX is rated 8.4, while FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge VRTX writes "A very good online UI and fit for lower budgets but nodes don't sync with the server". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Dell PowerEdge VRTX is most compared with HPE ConvergedSystem, Dell VxBlock System, IBM PureSystems and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Oracle Exadata and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs. FlexPod XCS report.
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