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

"The product has helped our organization work seamlessly with staff in remote offices by providing storage and compute resources."

"This is very beneficial for our company as we own a service that should be up and running 24/7."

"It has reduced the time it takes to put the servers in production by half the time."

"HyperFlex is flexible for various projects and we have a lot of vendors doing projects where HyperFlex has been good at solving issues."

"This kind of solution adds a lot of value because it helps the IT department to align with the business' view."

"The product makes management much easier since there's a single pane of glass to use to monitor, manage and upgrade the system."

"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."

"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."

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

"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."

"The best feature about any type of storage related to the Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is its ease of scaling, and with a converged infrastructure platform, you can easily add a storage node or a compute node to the stack and grow in smaller increments compared to getting a whole new array or upgrading controllers."

"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 a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload."

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

"The support was very good."

"We previously used the old traditional type of file storage and we switched because there was almost no difference in cost but we got a product with much better features."

"The product does not have a cloud version...The product should be made more flexible in terms of integration capabilities."

"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 would like to move off the GUI."

"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected."

"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes hangs up in our environment and doesn't function well."

"We would like HyperFlex to connect the storage directly into Fabric Interconnect along with the features of the solution. We have enough ports in HyperFlex. We don't want to buy another set of switches to connect to Fabric Interconnect, complicating the solution."

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

"I'd like to see easier integration with other vendors."

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

"This product is not sufficiently scalable."

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

"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."

"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 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 solution doesn't scale."

"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."

"Initially HyperFlex was a little costly, it was higher, but Cisco wanted to get into our company, so they gave us a fair discount."

"Comparable solutions with switches, storage, and services are cheaper than HyperFlex. It should be cheaper."

"HyperFlex is a little pricey."

"It is highly priced compared to other vendors."

"Its price is high. Cisco needs to work on the pricing model for this product. Nutanix or VMware are cheaper products, and they provide almost the same functionality. Its price is a big road blocker when we are working with an end customer, and Nutanix and VMware are in competition. If they can reduce its price, it is actually a better choice for customers."

"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."

"They are not the cheapest on the market. But there's an old saying I like to quote: "If you know that you are getting what you pay for, it's fine if it's expensive.""

"When we negotiated with Cisco for the HyperFlex solution, they gave us a good price because they wanted to break into the market in Portugal for the first time. However, in general, I think it's a very expensive solution. It's a huge amount of money to acquire this kind of infrastructure."

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

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

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

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

"The price of the solution was reasonable."

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

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