We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and VMware vSAN 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."Everything is preconfigured. We can ship it and manage it remotely from any server. It is all in a box."
"Provides unified support: Being able to get a vendor from one company or another company on the line without having to go back through the call queue."
"It's less resource-intensive, given that it comes in a package."
"The solution can be innovative when it comes to cloud computing storage and networking."
"It simplifies everything. It gives you a single place to go if you need support or if you need to expand."
"The solution is innovative when it comes to compute storage and networking. Each environment has knowledge of another in a FlexPod environment. This would be difficult to operate separately."
"We have seen a 20 percent improvement in application performance."
"FlexPod has improved our company as far as ease of management, stability, and redundancy."
"The ease of use is great."
"The newer versions of this solution are much more stable and easier to manage."
"We find it easy to deliver this solution."
"It is easy to work with, easy to handle, and easy to manage."
"Adding new nodes and expanding vSAN forward is simple and non-disruptive for a lot of our customers."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"Flexibility, growth, and expansion are probably the more important features for us. As our environment grows, the more users come on, the more VDI workstations that we need, we can easily expand either horizontally or vertically with the environment"
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"There are certain things that are just hard to do on a physical infrastructure, like for instance you need to make petabytes of data available at high speed."
"Because when you try to do automation, there are many bits and pieces tied together. Sometimes, automation gets a little tricky for provisioning."
"I would like to see more CVDs and more published designs around a multi-hypervisor approach within a single pod."
"The majority of the time, if we need more storage, then we need to work with customizing the NetApp deployment. Right now, we just do a generic deployment, then wherever we have a need for storage, we have to move some application out of the next FlexPod deployment. One thing is to customize based on the requirements, but the requirements change so frequently, they are absolutely obsolete in six months."
"I would like to see them reduce the complexity, that would be my number one request because. Right now, doing simple things is pretty complex. You have so many options. It might be better if it were more wizard-driven, as opposed to going through five hundred dials. It's not very easy or intuitive."
"The ability to manage the templates across sites. We would like to easily take out the configuration of one FlexPod and copy it over, just making minor changes. There is a way to do it, but it's clumsy."
"There are too many management products: System Insight Manager, Oakum, etc. There are a lot of them and you have to know which one to use at which time. Whereas, with competitors, they have a single pane of glass view which has everything in it."
"The GPU based VDA solutions could use improvement."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
"Some intelligence can be added to the newest version to provide more flexibility between storage tiers."
"Hackers are able to manage to leak information or data from the product using some corrupt files, making it an area of major concern where improvements are required."
"The platform's cost affects the business. This particular area needs improvement."
"They can improve the manageability of the solution to make it more simple. It is not that complicated, but it will be good if they can make it more simple."
"While I like the replication and compression features, there is a problem with them running too slowly."
"In a future release, they could add micro-segmentation or security level features integrated into vSAN."
"One of the things that we've had challenges with are when we place hosts into maintenance mode. Sometimes doing so triggers large re-sync processes which can be time-consuming and which have, at times, pushed the capacity to the threshold. I definitely think making some changes in that area would provide some big improvements."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Oracle Exadata and HPE ConvergedSystem, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell PowerFlex.
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