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

"I find the usability very valuable."

"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."

"Most of our users are Cisco customers, so it fits in within the suites we use. Primarily for me, as a solution architect, it's the technology and architecture that is the most valuable. I know from my technical colleagues that it's easy to use and for the customer, the up-time is the most valuable asset. It's running, has low failure, and so on which is why we use it."

"The feature that we are most interested in is the scalability. When needed, we are able to add more nodes and scale it up further."

"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability, performance, and reliability. It scales well inside of a large data center."

"The initial setup is very straightforward."

"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."

"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."

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

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

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

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

"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."

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

"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."

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

"The product needs work in the area of deduplication which currently is inefficient."

"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."

"The pricing is pretty expensive."

"The initial setup can be a bit complex."

"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."

"Lacks some integration and documentation could be improved."

"We would like to move off the GUI."

"It needs more detailed documentation."

"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 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."

"The power switch on the hardware is located in a poor location where it can accidentally be pushed. In an update, they should solve this issue so people do not push it accidentally to have their service go down. A possible solution is the switch should be inside."

"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."

"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."

"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."

"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."

"There is no additional licensing cost other than the cost for each part."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"One of the challenges we have with HyperFlex is that they have a subscription fee for the operating system that runs on it, and if I remember correctly, it costs approximately $15,000 USD per month."

"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."

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

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

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

"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 price of the solution was reasonable."

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