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

"The initial setup is very straightforward."

"The automation is a valuable feature, it's interesting."

"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."

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

"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."

"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."

"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"It is easy to install."

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

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

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

"Cisco HyperFlex should decrease the amount of memory needed from the Controller VM that controls the physical discs. They control the discs by using the virtual VM over every ESXi host and the VM consumes memory and consumes more hardware resources. They have to improve that by decreasing the amount of required memory and CPUs to control this disc on the server."

"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."

"The pricing is pretty expensive."

"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."

"If we could have just a single pane of glass, where everything can be managed through that one app, rather than have multiple apps, it would be great."

"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."

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

"I would have liked it to be able to back up the system to a cloud, to be able to work from any other place"

"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."

"I would want VMware to ensure that when there's a hardware failure on a host, it should gracefully migrate the VMs to another host available in the cluster without restarting, which would be a great improvement."

"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."

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

"This product is not sufficiently scalable."

"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."

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

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

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

"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 price is a bit high. It could be better, but the product is worth the cost."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is a bit pricier compared to other brands in the market...There is a need to make additional payments towards the maintenance and support of the solution."

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

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

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

"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."