Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix vs. Dell VxRail

Well suited for on-prem virtual workloads

Incentivized

As Dell EMC VxRail comes as pre-built, the deployment process is simple and easy. It is possible to scale out easily and will get support from the vendor instantly. As it is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure and it is also the integration of Dell EMC hardware and Vmware, the flexibility that VxRail provides is effective. An organization that is looking for all in one place like data management, network management, Integration, and backup software ecosystem can go for this product.

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• Private cloud in the 500-2500 VM range
• K8S on top of these
• Traditional workloads on these as well
• Flexibility and scalability to start reasonably small and scale up quite big

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• Configuration Flexibility.
• Integrating with existing hyper-converged Infrastructure environment.
• Automating the IT operations.

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• Intersight deployments can be bit tricky and room for improvements
• Service profile type of deployments

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• Initial installation services leave a lot to be desired. We struggled to get the first units in service. Subsequent units were very easy to install though...
• Dell/EMC has an A/B maintenance cycle for updates. Make sure ALL of your units are on the same cycle. It is difficult (but not quite impossible) to get them changes after installation
• I would like to see a sub $100k offering for branch offices.

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Simplified Management and Operations:

Cisco Intersight and Nutanix Prism Central work together to provide a single pane of glass for managing both the physical infrastructure and the hyperconverged environment.

This reduces complexity and the need for specialized IT skills.

Automated Deployment: Zero-touch deployments are a key feature, especially for remote and edge environments.

Cisco Intersight policies allow for automated bare-metal firmware and OS installation, ensuring consistency and reducing manual errors.

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It is much better , faster and created for high availability work loads that are dynamic to deploy and grow based on need and business demand.

We have use vSAN deployed prior to this new solution, and we prefer Cisco solution by a large margin to accommodate our growing requirements.

We are always watching other products and keeping ahead of the technology.

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All of these solutions scored very close together in our testing. Nutanix actually was the highest scoring in ease-of-use, but the integration with Vmware and the pricepoint led us to choose VxRail.

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• We had a positive ROI as the bundle pricing of HW+SW was at par or slightly lesser than what we were already incurring with our legacy solution

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• We did not measure ROI on the purchase.

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