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

"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."

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

"I find the usability very valuable."

"It's very easy to integrate with the ACI network."

"It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan."

"Cisco HyperFlex is helping us to put everything in centrally so that we can manage in one place."

"The implementation process is okay."

"The management feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."

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

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

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

"It is easy to install."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Lacks easy integration with other vendors."

"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."

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

"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."

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

"Cisco's technical support originally was outstanding, but it has declined over the last 12 months. I've heard they're trying to do better, but I haven't been overly impressed with their support recently for HyperFlex."

"This product is not sufficiently scalable."

"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."

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

"The solution doesn't scale."

"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"We currently have a perpetual license, which is kind of unlimited, so we don't have the normal licensing cost, yet."

"It is highly priced compared to other vendors."

"If you don't look at the costs of the systems, the scalability is quite good."

"They are not the cheapest on the market. But there's an old saying I like to quote: "If you know that you are getting what you pay for, it's fine if it's expensive.""

"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."

"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."

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