We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and IBM VersaStack 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."The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate different products into one validated design. That allows customers to understand and get the value out of the hardware, as it was designed."
"I have found the platform to be resilient, mainly because all the hardware is fault-tolerant. It has built-in HA, so if one of the components goes down, you're covered by the platform itself."
"For anyone who needs the flexibility of moving around profiles from physical device to physical device, it really adds an additional layer of virtualization."
"I would rate technical support as a 10 out of 10. They are good and responsive."
"The most valuable feature is ease of deployment. Once I deploy the chassis and I have the back-end storage, configuring more UCS servers is very quick. I can deploy a new UCS server within minutes."
"Simplicity and integration with NetApp are its most valuable features."
"The solution makes our staff more efficient, enabling them to spend time on tasks that drive our business forward. The environment is more homogeneous, so there are not as many technologies to study and learn. People can focus on improving their knowledge in existing technologies."
"The data is available, compressed, and deduped."
"Replication and DR implementation became faster."
"The solution has high IOPS and the I/O is important because it gives us more transactions per second."
"The combination of Cisco's architecture and IBM's flash technology. Cisco provides FI technology which provides one simple architecture. IBM's flash technology is fast."
"If you have expertise setting up such environments, then you are good, but for customers or novices, it becomes a nightmare and stuff may actually be left out."
"We don't see the much DR capability within the FlexPod so for that, we have to maintain our own DR capability with DSRM."
"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."
"This is an expensive solution."
"We have had bugs which have been released, even though they have been minor."
"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."
"We dislike going online with the robot stuff. Many times, it has delayed our reaching out to a real support engineer."
"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."
"Raw data mapping for storage should be a given option."
"The solution should improve deduplication to get a lot of savings."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while IBM VersaStack is ranked 8th in Converged Infrastructure with 3 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while IBM VersaStack is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM VersaStack writes "A very high IOPS that gives more I/O transactions per second". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Oracle Exadata and Dell VxBlock System, whereas IBM VersaStack is most compared with Dell VxBlock System. See our FlexPod XCS vs. IBM VersaStack report.
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