We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The ROI we have seen from the high performance that has saved us time and money."
"The software defines networking, storage, and processing."
"I love the Cisco design, the visual interface to manage and use the platform."
"Great integration with backup software."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is simple to use, user-friendly and has been best for our purposes."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco HyperFlex HX is that it is self-contained."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"The most valuable features of the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series are the ease of use and simple configuration."
"The initial setup is simple. We were able to deliver the hyper-convergence solution in a very good time."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's deployment phase is pretty easy."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"It would be helpful to have a little more insight into what kind of performance the VSAN cluster is utilizing; something that would be more proactive on our side, versus their ProActive Support."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"Its price could be better."
"The documentation could be substantially better, but the product itself does everything it needs to do."
"I haven't been too impressed with the Cisco HyperFlex HX, honestly. It's a hard concept."
"It needs improvements in terms of I/O. Sometimes I have felt it is slightly slow while we are trying to provision VMs or access VMs."
"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."
"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"
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"There is a delay in the availability of similar versions of firmware from both the products, which are VMware and Nutanix for Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, due to the delayed releases from both products, maybe by a quarter or so."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series could improve by having better integration with the solutions from VMware and vCenter"
"Here in Nigeria, the only challenge that we have, which I think is also experienced globally is the delay in bringing in the spare parts. This is a challenge facing our country, such as the Forex market. However, this is beyond the control of Lenovo themselves."
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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 HX Series is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is rated 8.0. 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 HX Series writes "With an easy deployment phase, the tool offers good scalability and stability". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and FlexPod XCS, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, VxRail and HPE Alletra dHCI.
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