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

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

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

"The possibility to share the workload is one of its most valuable features. We have many applications which have need of workloads only a few times in a month, so we share HyperFlex with them."

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

"It is a stable and scalable solution."

"The product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."

"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."

"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."

"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's technical support is generally very good."

"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"

"It is easy to install."

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

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

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

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

"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."

"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."

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

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

"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."

"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."

"I would like to see more analytics. It could use better infographs in the HyperFlex Connect on how traffic is running in the network. If you were reaching any capacity issues on the Fabric Interconnects, it should be able to cool all of the servers and Fabric Interconnects, then possibly integrate it with, e.g., Nexus Series switches. This should all be available in a single pane of glass."

"The initial setup of the Cisco HyperFlex HX platform was medium-level difficult. It's a little bit different from traditional servers. It takes getting used to the learning curve."

"We have experienced some issues with performance."

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

"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 EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."

"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."

"Upgrades are carried out manually."

"This product is not sufficiently scalable."

"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."

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

"The product is expensive. Other solutions are 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."

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

"There is a 30 percent additional premium that all the companies are charging for Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series because of the lack of chips and bottlenecks in the market. The cost of the solution is high right now."

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

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

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

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

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

"The price of the solution was reasonable."

"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."

"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."