We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and HPE Hyper Converged 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."When our clients choose to call NetApp or Cisco directly, the cooperative support model means they can get passed back and forth between the two organizations freely. It works really well."
"It makes us more lateral and faster to production."
"With the components that come in FlexPod, it has enabled us to reduce connectivity down to one wire, whereas before, we had eight, 12, or 20 wires going to one server."
"The ability to converge a lot of different data and platforms into a single common platform, then scale horizontally and vertically."
"It simplifies everything. It gives you a single place to go if you need support or if you need to expand."
"The most valuable feature is the one support. Anytime that a customer buys a solution for a server, storage, or network, once they have trouble in their environment, everyone wants to find out who was wrong. With FlexPod, everyone is wrong and there is unified support. The best way to solve the problem is have it be everyone's problem, not just one person's problem. For FlexPod, you can call NetApp or Cisco, and I think it's the best way to solve the problem that the customer has."
"The benefit is the speed, it's the performance. That's what it comes down to is the performance of the solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the integration and ease of use."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"The most valuable features are resiliency and data protection."
"What I really like about this program, is that it needs little space and it works really fast, so it saves us time."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It provides unmatched performance, productivity and reliability."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"The FAS in it, with all its flexibility and scalability, it is much more complex and could be simplified."
"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 be interested to see more integration with other applications."
"FlexPods can include the new networking and new virtualization of storage and data center interconnectivity with the networking side of it. They can evolve and grow by connecting pods together."
"Parts of the initial setup were complex, especially on the networking side."
"Our environment does not always require this solution, so we are not reaping the optimal ROI."
"I would like to have the installation of the top virtualization on its own rather than doing it through the admin. For example, if FlexPod is configured after the configuration of the host, the ESXi is installed also, but it should be part of it rather than doing it as a separate system."
"We would like them to have better features to integrate with the cloud."
"The solution is not very stable."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"This solution is very costly."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"If the solution could further compress the data, it would use less storage."
"Data protection and optimization: It is really weak. They do not offer deduplication or compression."
"Scalability is an issue because it becomes very expensive. When you need to upgrade memory, you have to upgrade memory across the nodes. Suppose a customer has gone with a three-node HCI solution, then to increase the memory, you have to do it across the three nodes."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 295 reviews while HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Oracle Exadata and VMware vSAN, whereas HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity.
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