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

"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."

"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."

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

"It is a stable and scalable solution."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained."

"It saves space for data centers, which is good."

"The solution can scale up and out."

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

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

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

"Dell's technical support is generally very good."

"It is easy to install."

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

"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"

"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."

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

"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."

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

"Does not support the stretch cluster, and the interface is not good."

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

"I would like for them to develop integration with other technologies, like SD Access. It's still lacking an enhancement management player."

"It is quite new solution, so it is not very stable."

"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."

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

"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."

"We have experienced some issues with performance."

"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."

"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."

"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."

"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes must be flexible since it is complex in designing concepts. It needs to improve stability. The product should integrate with the public cloud."

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

"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."

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

"It is relatively expensive, but it can easily return value by freeing up other resources."

"The pricing is a bit expensive."

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

"It's much more expensive than rack servers. It was an issue, but when you compare it to the number of people who were administrative assistants before, it's on the positive ROI side. It's much cheaper."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a bit pricier compared to other brands in the market...There is a need to make additional payments towards the maintenance and support of the solution."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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