We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"It saves space for data centers, which is good."
"It is very scalable. It is also easy to scan."
"Support is very responsive."
"There are some slight cost advantages when you need fewer resources to manage it."
"Great integration with backup software."
"It is a hyper-converged solution which integrates with the network instead of the product."
"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."
"We used to have a single customer-facing data center, which was vulnerable to failure. This product has allowed us to create high availability between two private data centers."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"Its price could be better."
"If we compare it with VMware, the VMware product is basically very open, and it can be easily integrated with any platform. VMware product is also available on the cloud and is not an appliance-based product, whereas Cisco HyperFlex is an appliance-based product. Companies that want to use HCI as a platform or as a service would prefer something without an appliance. A SaaS-based product is better for a customer who is using the cloud and has multiple resources, workflows, and devices on the cloud and wants to go for a hyper-converged solution. This is where improvement is needed. In addition to an appliance-based product, Cisco should provide a SaaS-based product. Its price should be lower. Cisco needs to work on the pricing model for this product. Its price is a big road blocker when competing against Nutanix and VMware, which are its main competitors."
"The solution could improve by having more customization."
"The solution's price could be affordable."
"The deployment could be made a little bit easier, as we still seem to struggle with it a little bit for a day or so to get it running."
"I would like a lighter product; something which can be carried by a mere human. The typical size still looks like a stack of data center-sized servers, which is typically fine, but not so good if you want to carry it around."
"The primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 22nd in HCI with 1 review. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node writes "Provides a valuable concept of hyper-convergence, but its support services could be faster ". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VxRail.
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