We performed a comparison between Dell VxBlock System and FlexPod XCS 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."Its performance is very good."
"Integration with VMware and VMotion definitely brings a lot of value."
"It's at least 99 percent problem-free because it's factory-built. So from an informational point of view, everyone trusts that VxBlock has been tested well at the factory and has been configured to their requirements."
"The monitoring and management parts are the most valuable. Monitoring is specifically valuable because you have one console to monitor everything. This console is called Vision."
"Good default features."
"VxBlock has good performance, so that is an advantage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed."
"It's a highly optimized piece of equipment that doesn't give us any problems."
"It provides us with a lot of agility, on-demand or through orchestrations. We deliver hundreds of servers."
"I have never seen a more resilient HA product out there then NetApp's solution. If I want to know that I'm putting my workload on a solution, from a storage perspective, that is going to be up 100% of the time, I'm going to choose NetApp."
"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."
"Since the addition of nodes, it is all automated now. What would normally take us around three to five hours in the past, has come down to 15 minutes to half an hour, creating a significant gain in time."
"Our previous solution used to take 24 hours and now we're down to seven hours. It has really good performance."
"The most valuable feature of FlexPod is that it allows you to get the old compute storage and the network switch or the fabric of the network in one box. You can use pods to have a tiny cloud in the box, which is one of its best features."
"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 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."
"This solution does not support Hyper-V, and we would like the new version to be supported and certified to work with Hyper-V."
"It is a good product, but for us, it is like a black box. We are not really sure about its internal components, and how to do the terminal upgrade, and how to make sure about the security of the device. We understand how it works, but in order to do the upgrades, we have to get help from the company. We cannot do it ourselves. In another model that we had, the internal team could do the upgrade but not in this one. There is no clear process for a new upgrade or update. They should provide a software intelligence tool that has a dashboard where you can see the current firmware, the latest firmware, and the documentation and the process for the upgrade. For VxBlock, we have different management consoles. There is no single management console that you can use to manage all components inside VxBlock. Their scale up and scale out process is also not clear. Their support is also a little bit slow in responding to the cases."
"The consistency of disc quality could be improved."
"The only thing that I can say is when you procure the VxBlock, obviously you have to complete detailed questionnaires about your architecture including the configuration, et cetera. If you make a mistake on the implementation, then you need to rebuild the entire VxBlock. That is just a point of consideration rather than a flaw. You need to be absolutely sure and validate the upfront configuration information that you provide because your VxBlock comes delivered and built, according to that exact information."
"Does not support different kinds of mixed applications."
"It's a good product but the price could be lowered. It's expensive."
"Scalability is an area that needs to be improved."
"The hardware lifecycle is not documented very well. For example, now you can buy a piece of equipment, but you don't know if the hardware is going to be a team production next month or next year."
"It would be very helpful if the upgrades for Cisco, VMware, and NetApp could be bundled together and performed at the same time."
"I would like to see better operations, a single pane of glass to manage and monitor the entire design across VMware, Cisco, etc. I would also like the upgrade process to be a little smoother."
"Hyper-V is not as well supported by NetApp and Cisco as VMware is, which is something that should be improved."
"The upgrades should be improved. We would like to have the ability to do unified upgrades of the whole infrastructure from beginning to end."
"The initial setup is complex because it has to be done in a certain way."
"On the NetApp side, there are definitely things to improve in terms of software updates."
"Unified management would be really nice, having one a single pane of glass to manage everything do with the solution."
"Areas for improvement would be the support for the engineering team, who seem to have no clue when you open a case, the communication with and recognition of resellers, and the documentation, with could be more detailed."
Dell VxBlock System is ranked 4th in Converged Infrastructure with 12 reviews while FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews. Dell VxBlock System is rated 7.8, while FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell VxBlock System writes "Can be deployed quickly, is easy to manage, and is stable and resilient". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". Dell VxBlock System is most compared with Dell PowerEdge VRTX, Dell Vscale Architecture, Dell PowerFlex, IBM VersaStack and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, whereas FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Oracle Exadata and Dell PowerEdge VRTX. See our Dell VxBlock System vs. FlexPod XCS report.
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