Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs Dell vSAN Ready Nodes comparison

"Performance-wise, everything is good. So far, we haven't had any issues. There has been no downtime at all."

"Technical support is good but we need it for every piece we do."

"The solution is easy to deploy as they're based on ECS."

"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained."

"Most of our users are Cisco customers, so it fits in within the suites we use. Primarily for me, as a solution architect, it's the technology and architecture that is the most valuable. I know from my technical colleagues that it's easy to use and for the customer, the up-time is the most valuable asset. It's running, has low failure, and so on which is why we use it."

"It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan."

"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."

"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is the flexibility of the nodes. Additionally, if there are any critical issues they update us through emails. The issues are taken care of remotely on the system."

"Dell's technical support is generally very good."

"I rate vSAN ReadyNodes as a nine out of ten."

"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."

"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."

"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."

"The support was very good."

"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."

"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."

"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group."

"The solution could improve by having more customization."

"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."

"I have been receiving a memory overflow message every day when I use the solution."

"We would like to move off the GUI."

"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."

"The Dell VxRail solution is based on vSAN Ready Nodes, but the Dell VxRail is fully automated. It would be helpful if this automation feature could be added to the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes. For example, we need to install VMware ESXi, and manually expand the cluster."

"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required. The price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes could be lowered."

"When comparing Dell VxRail and Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes, I have found that when managing and expanding Dell VxRail is much better."

"Upgrades are carried out manually."

"We have experienced some issues with performance."

"I think the upgrades could be improved. If you compare it to other HCI solutions, like VxRail, the upgrade process is fully automated whereas on vSAN ReadyNodes it's a bit complicated and we have to do it manually."

"When customers want to expand capacity but all the drive slots are full, they are forced to buy new servers or nodes which adds more costs with licenses and hardware, rendering it less scalable than other storage setups."

"This product is not sufficiently scalable."

"Its price is rather fair when compared with other solutions like VxRail, vSAN, and HPE SimpliVity. We got a fair amount of discount from Cisco for Cisco HyperFlex. It is cost-effective. We have renewed storage till next year, and we have already paid the vendor. When we talk about HyperFlex or any HCI solution, storage is the part where we can reduce a lot of costs. At the current moment, we are already using NetApp storage, which did not allow us to go for a full Cisco HyperFlex setup. We are planning to go to a larger scale next year. Then we will be able to see how cost-effective it really is for us."

"We negotiated with Cisco and we got some price benefit from that."

"The product is expensive. Other solutions are cheaper."

"The price is a bit high. It could be better, but the product is worth the cost."

"Pricing is better if you buy more Cisco products."

"We have a yearly license."

"I would like a clearer licensing model. It should explain a bit more what you receive if you buy the more expensive license rather than the standard one."

"For customers in the private sector, this product can have a very high return on investment."

"The solution is more expensive than a traditional array. The prices are skyrocketing."

"The price of the solution was reasonable."

"My company makes yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the solution. The solution is expensive."

"We have a four-year contract to use Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes."

"There is a problem, which is the lack of an integrated price structure."

"Comparing the price of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes to other solutions it is not expensive."

"The tool's pricing is competitive compared to others. The tool's licensing is based on annual subscriptions."