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

"The solution can scale up and out."

"The storage system is its most valuable feature. It has eliminated our entire need for having to worry about storage. We were storing a lot of syslog data and using a lot of templates in our data center. With the storage system, we are now saving an enormous amount of space."

"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."

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

"The initial setup was straightforward. With our partners and the consultancy that we had, we knew what we wanted to do. Therefore, we didn't have any problems with the installation and parametrization."

"The feature that we are most interested in is the scalability. When needed, we are able to add more nodes and scale it up further."

"Cisco provides the ability to configure BIOS, something that no one else can do, on a remote basis. That's really helpful sometimes. The bus-snooping alteration tool for BIOS is fantastic. That's one of the game-changing features that Cisco alone has at this point."

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

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

"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."

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

"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Deployment on-prem was quite difficult."

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

"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."

"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."

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

"We would like to move off the GUI."

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

"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 must be flexible since it is complex in designing concepts. It needs to improve stability. The product should integrate with the public cloud."

"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."

"This product is not sufficiently scalable."

"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."

"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."

"We have experienced some issues with performance."

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

"Here in Brazil... it is very expensive. It's very hard for almost all companies to buy even the small version of this solution."

"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 negotiated with Cisco and we got some price benefit from that."

"We have a yearly license."

"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."

"When we negotiated with Cisco for the HyperFlex solution, they gave us a good price because they wanted to break into the market in Portugal for the first time. However, in general, I think it's a very expensive solution. It's a huge amount of money to acquire this kind of infrastructure."

"It is highly priced compared to other vendors."

"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."

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

"The price of the solution was reasonable."

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

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

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