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."It's a common platform, which provides for ease of use between all of the blade servers. It uses all the same tech, moving service profiles seamlessly across from one blade to the next. There is also combined support."
"It simplifies the management of our entire system."
"It provides ease of automation."
"The benefit is the speed, it's the performance. That's what it comes down to is the performance of the solution."
"The solution suits converged infrastructures, where the customer gets a complete system with Cisco servers, NetApp Storage, and Cisco switches."
"We enjoy the standardization and having things consistent across the whole data center sphere."
"It is very stable. We have had absolutely zero problems."
"We have significantly less latency now with our imagery."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"I would like to see programmability into a SaaS-based offering, as I know Cisco's going in a lot of directions with their Intersight application."
"It would be helpful to have more flexibility for adding other components."
"According to the product managers, there are some new products coming which will address some of our concerns around portability and compliance."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation. I understanding how things are coming together and a lot of that is from the UCS side."
"Maybe in the future, they could include the HCI solution into the mix."
"We would like to have more monitoring and reporting, because today some of the reporting, and if you purchase it separately is expensive. We use OnCommand Unified Manager today, which is great, but we are looking for more of that."
"They just announced that they are going to move it along with Intersight from Cisco. That can be a private or public cloud, which is one of the areas where it can grow more and has a lot of potential."
"We would like more security features."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"It crashes often. When one particular VM has random, large IOPS requests, it will bog down the node, and there isn't enough time for the replica to be brought up. So all the VMs on that one particular node will essentially become offline."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
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, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, 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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