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."The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"It has a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is its performance."
"Cisco offers very good quality."
"It consumes a smaller footprint when I compare it with other competitors."
"The scalability of the product is quite good overall - as long as you plan correctly from the outset."
"On the VDI side, because the storage is local to the HyperFlex, it was very easy and convenient. The performance is exceptional."
"It is very scalable. It is also very secure. Cisco's security portfolio is integrated with it, which makes it secure. It is a platform-based device. Its performance is also fairly good in comparison to any other solution."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"The product is useful for DR and other things."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"If I consider the overall product, I would say that it is an excellent solution that offers very good performance and stability."
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"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."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"The product can include a more simple way of synchronization after a forced shutdown as the current process has a few more steps to check that hosts have synchronized and this can be automated."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"When it comes to customer needs, the licensing price could be better."
"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."
"This solution is lacking in replication and backup abilities that I would like to see in a future release similar to HPE SimpliVity."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"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."
"Unlike other options, you need to pay a subscription to Cisco yearly instead of paying for the hardware outright, which makes it more expensive in the long run."
"We would like to have the ability to not have to reboot while doing updates. Being able to work through updates with as minimal amount of impact to users."
"We are operating two clusters for site resiliency. I would like to support running redundant/resilient vCenter server instances on each rather than a supported external server."
"The solution doesn't scale."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"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."
"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."
"Compatibility with other hardware nodes needs to be improved."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"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."
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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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