We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and VxRail 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."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."
"It runs our VMs. Our SQL databases are all on VMs, so everything is virtualized."
"It has been a great product, primarily because of a lot of its deduplication features, and the out-of-the-box thinking on block level storage from NetApp."
"For us as an IT department, it helped us a lot. Before we implemented FlexPod, we were using different solutions all based on a virtual infrastructure. On VMware, before implementing FlexPod, we had a lot of problems doing backups with disaster recovery. After integrating it, it enabled us to have shorter maintenance windows, instant backups, instant recovery, which also minimized the number of alerts that we get from the application team and from the employees who were working on the application that something is not working."
"It has been very stable. There has been no downtime."
"It reduces the time required to dynamically provide applications to our end users and developers."
"It is a very well-thought-out solution with great virtualization. A good option we have is mapping a storage LUN onto an ESX cluster. That way, in case a particular ESX is down, it can migrate (using vMotion) to another host in the cluster, resulting in high-availability."
"The real benefit of this solution is that it is pre-architected with the ability to scale-up and scale-out."
"The solution is perfect for the lifecycle management of hardware."
"There is a single vendor with the hardware, software, and maintenance. Thus, there is a single vendor with whom we can contact."
"Low-maintenance solution with hyperscale feature so it has the ability to utilize the resources for the VMware cluster setup on which Citrix VDA runs."
"VxRail has high performance and has great efficiency. There is a single place for us to manage all of our virtual machines. The ability to right-size instead of overcommit VMs is a large benefit."
"You don't have to worry too much about the hardware and you don't have to work on integrating a storage device. We instead have this as an all-in-one solution and everything is available as a box."
"It's very easy to upgrade."
"The VxRail is built on two specific platforms that have been in the industry for the last 15 to 20 years: the 1-U socket and the 2-U socket platforms from Dell. They're in their sixteenth generation of those platforms, I believe, so they're very stable."
"VxRail performs well in the VDI environment."
"I have noticed a lot of customers, they will kick it over the fence. It is FlexPod; it is that mystery animal. The room for improvement is to better present it to those users, so they will not have to be afraid of it."
"On the UCS side, sometimes it is difficult to set up."
"They should have an easier user interface to get it up and running."
"There were several different management consoles that we had to deal with: UCS, VMware, and separate ESXi installations. Maybe one interface council where we could manage everything from might be a little easier."
"There is always room for improvement. I believe we can do hot swaps on the fly. On the release upgrades, if there was a way to do a release on the fly, that would really be cool because it does take some downtime. It takes restarting. It is more of a software thing. Customers hate doing releases."
"We would like more integration with some other HCI solutions so we can take advantage of other opportunities."
"I'd like them to bring back the GUI for NetApp ONTAP. They changed the interface in version 9.8, and it's not great. In 9.9 they've tried to bring it back a little bit, but it's still not great."
"We would like FlexPod to have more power, though it is not lacking in power now."
"It should not be deployed on one hypervisor. There should be multiple hypervisors supported like Hyper-V or KVM."
"Troubleshooting can be a little more difficult than legacy systems."
"It would be nice if its installation can be simplified, but it is currently not too bad. They can provide deduplication and compression in hybrid configurations. To the best of my knowledge, these features are not there, and it would be nice if these are added. Some of its competitors already have these features, so it will help VxRail to have a better feature set and compete more effectively."
"The solution is okay to scale vertically but a bit difficult to expend horizontally. For example, increasing RAM."
"The solution could improve by having more storage performance because in some other solutions you can have a file system that can be mounted at several places at one time."
"Obtaining support was hindered by the frequent changes to the hotline numbers."
"The product has high pricing. This particular area needs improvement."
"The price should come down a little bit. It has become better than it was at the beginning. There was a really big price difference between a hyper-converged infrastructure and the classic servers and storage. The gap is lessening, however, it's still there."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while VxRail 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata, Dell VxBlock System and Dell PowerEdge VRTX, whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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