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

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

"We chose Cisco because it has perfect support with cool people who helped us the configuration."

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

"The main value is it brings the total solution, so you don't need to worry about storage and also networking."

"It is a complete solution for proper software-defined data centers with hardware, software, and everything else."

"When we use it for VDI solutions, it is very easy to deploy and support."

"It's very easy to integrate with the ACI network."

"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."

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

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

"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 cost is higher compared to non-Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, but when compared with external storage solutions, there are significant benefits."

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

"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload."

"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."

"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."

"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."

"We'd like the product to offer better integration with other products."

"It was really painful, and we couldn't sort out the reason."

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

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

"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."

"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."

"I would want VMware to ensure that when there's a hardware failure on a host, it should gracefully migrate the VMs to another host available in the cluster without restarting, which would be a great improvement."

"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."

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

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

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

"The pricing is a bit expensive."

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

"It is highly priced compared to other vendors."

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

"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.""

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

"Our licensing is Hybrid. We have all of our applications for billing and outage management through this."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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