We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"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."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"It allows us to authorize our residents to come in using their own personal devices to access any of our clinical applications and ensure that the PHI is secure and protected."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"You can administer things easily. E.g., if you need more power, you can add a system."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series' deployment is easy. We are a tier-one platinum partner who is into multiple implementations."
"We find the setup quite straightforward and very easy."
"The VX machines are scalable."
"Installation is straightforward because it's a vSAN. It only took one or two days."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"You have to get the same servers with the same storage; they need to be identical. However, in vSAN or in VMware we don't have to do that. We can just add storage and manage it in the same server."
"I would like it to be easier to manage the server, create VMs, and manage the VMs on the client."
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"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."
"The architecture separates data, computing, memory, and storage into different parts."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series needs to improve its stability. Its resolution should be faster."
"Support could be better."
"With the VX machines, the clients often confuse the hardware itself with the services and resources. VMs are configured according to resources - memory, hard disk capacity, and network. These resources, including memory and processor, are actually shared on the VX Series. So, if the server's processor is underpowered or unreliable for the VMs, many of the VMs will encounter issues. Ideally, the physical server configuration should align more closely with the needs of the virtual servers."
"The user management could be a bit better. It's something they could improve upon in future releases."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 90 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 15th in HCI with 4 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series 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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series writes "simplifies management for clients familiar with VMware, and offers a user-friendly management and configuration experience". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged.
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