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

"You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."

"Scalability is easy and simple."

"We are providing this solution for the customer or converting the customer from a traditional environment to a hyper-converged environment which consolidates all management and support on a single port. This is the main benefit of using the hyper-converged versus the traditional."

"The most valuable feature is full integration with Cisco API and UCS, which means you can have complete networking and storage from Cisco."

"It is scalable and easy to use."

"Overall, the solution is extremely easy, flexible and secure."

"The software defines networking, storage, and processing."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."

"I rate vSAN ReadyNodes as a nine out of ten."

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

"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"

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

"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."

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

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

"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."

"The initial setup can be complex."

"Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web. For example, for the integration to VMware, I had a case recently and I searched for more information but didn't find any."

"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."

"It would have been nice if the product provided some cloud integrations."

"One of the biggest problems with HyperFlex HX is that if you want to adjust your solution in terms of processing power, memory, or disk capacity, you have to buy completely new hosts. From a financial perspective, it can be very expensive to do so, and from a legal perspective, there are all kinds of compliance issues we would have to sort out before buying any new solution or application."

"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."

"We are moving further out with more cloud solutions, so we need HyperFlex to be more cloud-connected. They should develop more connection to Amazon Web Services and Google cloud because our customers use their services and are moving in that direction."

"The initial setup of profiles and templates could be improved. Maybe some end profiles that you can use based on your type of deployment would be good."

"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."

"Upgrades are carried out manually."

"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' deployment is complex."

"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."

"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."

"This product is not sufficiently scalable."

"We are on an annual subscription and the price is fair."

"HyperFlex is a little pricey."

"HyperFlex is relatively expensive, but you get good value for money."

"Our licensing costs are large, but it is combined between all of the Cisco products that we have."

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

"The pricing is a bit expensive."

"The cost is expensive, but there is a chance to save money in the future."

"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."

"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."

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

"The price of the solution was reasonable."

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

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

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