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

"Easily facilitates remote work opportunities with storage and compute resources."

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

"It increases efficiency, decreases the cost, and manages the network in one single way. That's the most important thing."

"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."

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

"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."

"Cisco offers very good quality."

"Stretch cluster allows us to warranty a service for the customer."

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

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

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

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

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

"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."

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

"The cost is higher compared to non-Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, but when compared with external storage solutions, there are significant benefits."

"The initial setup can be complex."

"The initial setup can be complex."

"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."

"They can't get a POC to work because there are big latencies between the two sites we have. Even though we have a private fiber connection and everything else works well, they can't get the two products to talk to each other. They are not able to build it up. It looks like it's a firmware issue. They said it isn't but now it's looking like it is. I hope we can sort it out."

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

"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."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series could improve by having the documents be more readily available and the support could be more flexible."

"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."

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

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

"We have experienced some issues with performance."

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

"Although vSAN ReadyNodes work well, a faster firmware lifecycle with the release of validated firmware catalogs more quickly would be a desired improvement."

"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 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."

"Upgrades are carried out manually."

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

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

"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."

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

"I would like the pricing to be cheaper."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"The price of the solution was reasonable."

"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."

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