We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"It's easy to get the tool started."
"Cisco HyperFlex HX has improved the way our organization functions on the storage side by having one big storage space for hosting VMs. We do not have to provision other ones. That's a positive aspect of it."
"The solution is easy to use and to learn. It is well integrated with VMware."
"The most valuable feature is that it is something small that can be more easily deployed than a full data center set of servers."
"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."
"Scalability is easy and simple."
"The implementation process is okay."
"The product is easy to manage and flexible for upgrading without major changes."
"We find the setup quite straightforward and very easy."
"Installation is straightforward because it's a vSAN. It only took one or two days."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series' deployment is easy. We are a tier-one platinum partner who is into multiple implementations."
"The VX machines are scalable."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"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."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"It should be improved in the way it detects the right filesystem image after a complete shutdown of the system or in the case of disaster recovery."
"The initial setup could be faster, due to the prerequisites."
"There is a VMware plugin for HyperFlex, which sometimes it hangs up in our environment, and doesn't function well."
"The initial setup of profiles and templates could be improved. Maybe some end profiles that you can use based on your type of deployment would be good."
"The storage layer seems to be a little better on the VMware than on HyperFlex side."
"The infrastructure team thinks that there are a lot of issues."
"The initial setup is very complex because there were some issues. It is not clear to how set up this solution."
"There are sometimes issues with memory failure."
"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."
"Support could be better."
"The user management could be a bit better. It's something they could improve upon in future releases."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series needs to improve its stability. Its resolution should be faster."
"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."
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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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