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

"The initial setup is easy."

"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."

"The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers."

"It allows us to authorize our residents to come in using their own personal devices to access any of our clinical applications and ensure that the PHI is secure and protected."

"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."

"This is not the only product we use, so we have other solutions to compare it with. We can compare different products and different vendors and tell our customers which products have which advantages and disadvantages so that they can leverage these products in their own environment. This product helps us to understand the customer's needs and what issues they can run into."

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

"Scalability is easy and simple."

"It is easy to install."

"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."

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

"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."

"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."

"vSAN ReadyNodes offer easy scalability, which has proven beneficial for storage needs."

"We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users."

"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."

"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."

"I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place"

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

"They should have more blade options and more configuration flexibility. Also, the price is expensive. It should be cheaper but it is worth the price."

"With the cache disk fails in Cisco, the whole node fails, and the workload goes down."

"One aspect that really needs to be looked at, is to fix the bugs issue."

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

"Upgrades are carried out manually."

"The solution doesn't scale."

"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."

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

"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 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."

"HyperFlex is a little pricey."

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

"The licensing is perpetual and the only thing that you may need to pay for on a monthly basis is if you're going to use their cloud-based management features."

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

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

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

"Here in Brazil... it is very expensive. It's very hard for almost all companies to buy even the small version of this solution."

"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."

"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."

"The price of the solution was reasonable."

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

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