We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The most important benefits that we've seen from this solution is that it reduces the cost of management and it has easy monitoring systems."
"Most of our users are Cisco customers, so it fits in within the suites we use. Primarily for me, as a solution architect, it's the technology and architecture that is the most valuable. I know from my technical colleagues that it's easy to use and for the customer, the up-time is the most valuable asset. It's running, has low failure, and so on which is why we use it."
"The most valuable features are scalability and the easy operation - if it works. You can configure everything from just one window."
"Its most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions in the way that the time to deliver a VM takes me five minutes. In comparison, my cloud team's response is a couple of days based on all their overhead policies, procedures, and ticket requests. This is substantial."
"It consumes a smaller footprint when I compare it with other competitors."
"It is a solution that best suits thre needs of our organization."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"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."
"It is easy to install."
"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."
"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 most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is scalable"
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"Cisco should combine its features with its prices."
"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"
"Cisco has to continue improve the management tools to provide a better command line interface with more functions. That would be better for administration."
"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."
"We need to be able to scale out and not just up. When you want to scale up or scale out, you are quite limited."
"The utilization needs to be better. It needs more options."
"The additional feature I would like to see included in the next release of this solution is more security. We want to add more data servers to all the hosts all over the world. We have 140 hosts that connect to one data center in Manila."
"Deployment scripts can be improved since several clans need to be created before the deployment effectively works."
"The solution doesn't scale."
"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."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"The deployment is done by doing it one by one and could be simplified."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"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."
"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."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 11th in HCI with 14 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and is easy to use". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, whereas Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure.
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