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

"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."

"The implementation process is okay."

"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."

"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."

"Scalability is easy and simple."

"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

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

"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."

"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is the flexibility of the nodes. Additionally, if there are any critical issues they update us through emails. The issues are taken care of remotely on the system."

"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"

"It is easy to install."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"In the next release, I would like to see them able to connect to the public cloud."

"You cannot just apply the VSXi updates. You are dependent on Cisco HyperFlex for metric services, analytics, and everything else. I don't like that dependency."

"Some of our customers do not want to adopt the Cisco ACI solution. They want to manage Cisco HyperFlex by integrating it with their own management solution."

"The pricing is pretty expensive."

"It needs more detailed documentation."

"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."

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

"We are working with a lot of different technologies and trying to manage them with one tool. The API could be improved for better integration with other systems."

"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."

"The solution doesn't scale."

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

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

"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."

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

"It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year."

"We have a yearly license."

"The product could be cheaper."

"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."

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

"Comparable solutions with switches, storage, and services are cheaper than HyperFlex. It should be 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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"The price of the solution was reasonable."