We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and HPE ConvergedSystem 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.
"It is easy to add-on to the tool. If we need to add a new switch, a new server, or a new chassis for Blades, it is easy. It is not disruptive. You just do it."
"There are very many features, but from experience, the single point of contact for support has been valuable to our customers."
"When you open the box, they give you a very nice diagram. Which was my initial guide through setting up any NetApp SAN. It worked itself out pretty well."
"FlexPod has affected the workload of our network admin team awesomely. We have fewer employees. It's good."
"It runs our VMs. Our SQL databases are all on VMs, so everything is virtualized."
"The product is robust, stable, and has flexibility."
"It is innovative because it's bare metal and you can customize it easily. This brings a lot of benefits to the solution."
"This sounds dumb, but it just works. I don't want to have to deal with support, and I don't need to because, again, it has just worked."
"This is a scalable solution. Our customers begin with an initial configuration and later add more servers, memory and other options to meet the demands of increased processing."
"The tool's most valuable features are stability and scalability."
"The solution's technical support was good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the flexibility and the availability of the machines."
"Consolidation and duplications features."
"Most of the HP products I come across are they are easy to install. That's not very complex."
"This solution is very simple to use."
"The most valuable features of HPE ConvergedSystem are scalability and resilience."
"Parts of the initial setup were complex, especially on the networking side."
"I would like to see more interoperability within FlexPods. This comes into more of how we grow from multiple domains to a massive domain."
"There are times where we have had issues with technical support."
"We would like better management of cases. For example, if you open a FlexPod case, it's not always straightforward. It would be nice to have centralized resource to open FlexPod cases and ease up management of our cases."
"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."
"I would also like to feel more support. NetApp has been pretty good, for the most part, but Cisco has more work to do. I've had very good experience with NetApp. Instead of having to call three different areas and saying, "I'm a FlexPod customer." It would be nice if it could be just one that gets routed. I know it would require three large companies to work together, but that's what would make this product a ten. They could definitely use with making it more user-friendly."
"Hyper-V is not as well supported by NetApp and Cisco as VMware is, which is something that should be improved."
"As the technology grows, we're looking to upgrade our storage systems to something faster, and we're hoping to improve our servers with next-generation technology. So we want to enhance our server infrastructure and explore server virtualization with VMware. That's the improvement that our clients are demanding."
"HPE ConvergedSystem needs to improve its price."
"The solution needs to add NFS features."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The solution has a complicated front-end."
"It could be enhanced by improving the built-in backup solution."
"Pricing is an area of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"The tool has shortcomings in its performance monitoring part."
"I would like to see monitoring solutions included, as well as brand support."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while HPE ConvergedSystem is ranked 3rd in Converged Infrastructure with 21 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while HPE ConvergedSystem 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 HPE ConvergedSystem writes "With good integration and expansion capabilities, the tool also offers good technical support". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail and Oracle Exadata, whereas HPE ConvergedSystem is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and Dell VxBlock System. See our FlexPod XCS vs. HPE ConvergedSystem report.
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