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 hardware has been rock solid so far. It has gone up easy. It runs well. We have not had issues with it."
"FlexClone allows you to create copies of volumes in seconds, and without occupying physical space."
"We have also seen an improvement in our application performance. Our VM and database environments are able to go as fast as we need them to now."
"The ability to converge a lot of different data and platforms into a single common platform, then scale horizontally and vertically."
"The fact that it can run the entire stack in terms of protocols. The integration for most of our customers is VMware; the full-stack integration. Also, the ability to do rapid cloning."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automation point because it's a lot less staff to have to manage it."
"One of the easiest solutions to implement, maintain, and scale."
"It is scaling to our needs. We don't have any issues."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"The solution is very stable."
"The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to."
"Scaling is a piece of cake. We have been able to scale up in our Asia-Pac region. We even are doing site-to-site replication of certain systems that we need to have high availability on."
"Unified management would be really nice, having one a single pane of glass to manage everything do with the solution."
"The GPU based VDA solutions could use improvement."
"It is not as easy as a hyperconverged solution, but you are going to have a hard time finding that anywhere, where you can just plugin and run a deployment app."
"They need to improve the user interface to make it easier to work in this environment. The older version is poor."
"The procedure for contacting technical support could be simplified."
"Hyper-V is not as well supported by NetApp and Cisco as VMware is, which is something that should be improved."
"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."
"A progress bar would...be pretty cool."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"HPE SimpliVity could be more flexible and scalable. I don't feel SimpliVity is flexible or easily scalable because I still need to buy another server to add to my clusters. I can't just run or harvest and add to my solution. I need to buy another server. There are a lot of components that are not giving a lot of value to me right now. I also had a few problems with the built-in hard disk drives. I've had many issues with the harvest stripes that the servers use. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's unusual to have a physical failure on the HPE platform. I don't see any value at the software level, especially in the software that manages that solution. I was waiting for something, especially in the application layer that I would use, but that is all over VMware, and it doesn't have an integrated module that I can use to manage the server and all the instances."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Product doesn't scale."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
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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