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

"It's a very scalable product because they have about 150 commercial services, so the scalability is very high, and the uptime is great."

"We have better computing power, better uptime, and easier management of the infrastructure due to it being a single unit."

"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."

"My advice is go for it; I had never had experience with hyperconverged, and it was a very nice experience."

"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."

"We have saved a lot of money with this solution, especially with implementation because time is money."

"It consumes a smaller footprint when I compare it with other competitors."

"The initial setup is very straightforward."

"The benefit of using vSAN is that it's easy to manage on vCenter, you can see if there are issues, get recommendations, and overall, it's highly fault-free which is beneficial because we want to minimize downtime."

"The product is useful for DR and other things."

"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"

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

"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."

"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."

"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."

"The tool's most valuable features are compression and its usage in Kubernetes."

"The initial setup of the Cisco HyperFlex HX platform was medium-level difficult. It's a little bit different from traditional servers."

"I would like to see them expand onto the cloud."

"Their technical support is very bad. We had an issue where instead of an engineer we got a PDF "doctor" that didn't know anything about our problem which was very frustrating."

"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."

"They should give us a little more information about how to use the CLI and offer more commands."

"They need to provide lower prices. It is pricey in comparison with other vendors - including Nutanix, or VxRail of EMC."

"In terms of the stability, we can't get it to work."

"We had some issues with deployment, specifically with Intersight and deploying HyperFlex on-prem."

"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."

"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."

"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes doesn't perform as well as IBM. There are significant limitations, especially with scalability and flexibility over time. For example, adding drives can be problematic if the specific drives aren't available with older nodes that are four or five years old. Unlike IBM, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes isn't as flexible and doesn't scale easily. Additionally, while present, features like deduplication and compression don't perform as efficiently as they do on IBM. Our experience shows that the tool isn't as robust or flexible as advertised."

"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."

"Currently, it's like a black box that only Dell technical support knows how to handle."

"The solution doesn't scale."

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

"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."

"There is a recurring cost for the VMware license and the HyperFlex licenses."

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

"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."

"We currently have a perpetual license, which is kind of unlimited, so we don't have the normal licensing cost, yet."

"It is highly priced compared to other vendors."

"The product could be cheaper."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"The price of the solution was reasonable."

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

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

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