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

"It is a complete package. For any kind of on-premises hyper-converged solution, we usually have to separate networks, but Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a complete solution. It has its own network and storage. The storage part is the most valuable feature."

"The most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."

"The UCS, which is by far the best management tool there is on the market, regardless of vendor. It's the only tool I see that gives you the opportunity to size and scale all the assets and capacity you have in your data center, from a unified view."

"The most valuable features of this solution are the connectivity, consistency, and that we now have fewer vulnerabilities on the network."

"The integration between the storage and the server applications is the most valuable feature of this solution. It cuts down on the necessity to buy a secondary storage system.. It saves money in the long-run."

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

"The technical support has been very good for this solution."

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

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

"The most beneficial feature is the consolidated storage which is the vSAN. It handles most of the heavy work."

"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 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."

"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."

"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."

"Cisco is quite expensive but not in the initial first buy."

"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."

"The solution's price could be affordable."

"Upgrades are carried out manually."

"Although vSAN ReadyNodes work well, a faster firmware lifecycle with the release of validated firmware catalogs more quickly would be a desired improvement."

"Sometimes we experience performance issues and disk failure issues frequently. Sometimes it impacts another disk group situation."

"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 deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."

"This product is not sufficiently scalable."

"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."

"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."

"There is a license required to use this solution."

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

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

"The price is a bit too high."

"We would not have invested if we didn't feel the return was there for our customers."

"It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year."

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

"It is highly priced compared to other vendors."

"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."

"The price of the solution was reasonable."

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

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

"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."