We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very easy-to-use solution that can be quickly and easily deployed and configured without intimate and specific knowledge in the virtualization sphere."
"The solution is stable."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"The initial setup was straightforward. With our partners and the consultancy that we had, we knew what we wanted to do. Therefore, we didn't have any problems with the installation and parametrization."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"The speed, storage, and management are the most valuable features."
"The solution can scale up and out."
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"We find the initial implementation process simple and straightforward."
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"You don't have to spend much time evaluating the hardware. It can be deployed in a short time. The tool is also easy to upgrade."
"The product is useful for DR and other things."
"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Stability is really poor, especially the storage stability. We lost data. There were disruptions of clusters and that's one big pain point of the solution. It's not stable enough, the documentation is not good, there's not much documentation available. For every call we need a tech engineer."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"They can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"A stretch function is really needed. Germans think that because of the high availability and the security that two data centers are better but we want edge all in one cluster. This is a needed feature, the cluster feature, and we'd also like to see a possibility for ROBO offices."
"I would rate the installation of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series an eight out of ten. It can be complex."
"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."
"The setup was complex, especially since we usually do all the planning, sizing, and workflows before integration."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes must be flexible since it is complex in designing concepts. It needs to improve stability. The product should integrate with the public cloud."
"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"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 deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"This product is not sufficiently scalable."
"The solution doesn't scale."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 11th in HCI with 14 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes 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 Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and is easy to use". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, whereas Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure.
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