We performed a comparison between Cisco Hyperflex HX series and VxRail based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In our comparison, VxRail is the preferred solution. VxRail is easy to use and performs well without causing undue stress to operating systems. The competitive price and overall cost-effectiveness make it an easy choice for many organizations.
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"Training is also easy as it is just one system to learn."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."
"Scalability is easy and simple."
"The solution is stable."
"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."
"The technical support has been very good for this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained."
"The compute storage and virtualization come all in one box."
"I like the managed updates. They are really nice in VxRail. Everything comes packaged and the updates are much easier than with other solutions that I've had to work with."
"Initial setup is straightforward, as everything is pre-installed."
"The feature that I have found most valuable with VxRail is its upgrade. Because if you talk about the normal ESX process you have to upgrade the firmware, the bios, and you have to manage the compatibility. You have to do a lot of things. But in the case of VxRail, it's a single upgrade, end to end. You simply upload the bundle, click next, it will do some pre-checks, if those pre-checks pass, it will update everything one by one. It will put one ESX in the maintenance and move other VM's to another mode. There is no downtime to the VM's."
"VxRail's technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is its high performance."
"VxRail performs well in the VDI environment."
"We deploy VxRail systems to provide our customers with a distributed information solution. The customer was impressed because we delivered a serious data reduction. For example, we showed them that 10 terabytes on their traditional storage solution could be reduced to 1.5 terabytes in the VxRail systems. That's why the customers also like it so much,"
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."
"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"One of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application."
"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."
"The scalability is limited to a single cluster with 64 nodes."
"Next release, we would like to see online applications."
"If we could have some out of the box ideas in integration, I think that would be a great feature."
"We would like to see integrating with Nutanix. Currently, we are working on integrating the two to see if there is any value in doing so."
"They need to keep upgrading the environment and improving automation so that the solution keeps getting better and better."
"Supply chain capabilities are certainly hurting us. We're in the process of placing a large order for more VxRail nodes right now."
"The initial setup between the different Dell departments is fragmented. The engineers who come to rack/stack and do the initial config should be trained on all the areas and work with the different Dell departments whilst they are onsite to give a smoother install and better experience for customer."
"Having a native replication would be an improvement."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 117 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs. VxRail report.
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