Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series [EOL] vs Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series comparison

"It's very easy to use and quite a mature product."

"Offers very good data protection and provides system uptime availability effectively."

"The ease of use and the graphical user interface (GUI) are two of the most valuable features of this solution."

"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"Deduplication is a valuable feature available in Cisco HyperFlex."

"The product is stable. No one complains about the stability, which is fabulous."

"It is helpful as a backup solution."

"The management from the switches to the hyper-convergence solutions are quite good and well-developed."

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's deployment phase is pretty easy."

"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 pricing is pretty expensive."

"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."

"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 primary improvements should be made in the cluster storage controller VMs so that they don't break the upgrade process."

"The initial setup of the Cisco HyperFlex HX platform was medium-level difficult. It's a little bit different from traditional servers. It takes getting used to the learning curve."

"Cisco is a bit more challenging in terms of deployment. The admin must be knowledgeable in order to complete the task. Without that knowledge, it will be difficult to complete."

"Sometimes when there are multiple technologies involved in a support case, this is when there is a bit of a lag."

"Some of our customers do not want to adopt the Cisco ACI solution. They want to manage Cisco HyperFlex by integrating it with their own management solution."

"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."

"Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series could improve by having better integration with the solutions from VMware and vCenter"

"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."

"Cisco is quite expensive, but not in the initial first buy."

"Its price is rather fair when compared with other solutions like VxRail, vSAN, and HPE SimpliVity. We got a fair amount of discount from Cisco for Cisco HyperFlex. It is cost-effective. We have renewed storage till next year, and we have already paid the vendor. When we talk about HyperFlex or any HCI solution, storage is the part where we can reduce a lot of costs. At the current moment, we are already using NetApp storage, which did not allow us to go for a full Cisco HyperFlex setup. We are planning to go to a larger scale next year. Then we will be able to see how cost-effective it really is for us."

"HyperFlex is relatively expensive, but you get good value for money."

"It is relatively expensive, but it can easily return value by freeing up other resources."

"There is a recurring cost for the VMware license and the HyperFlex licenses."

"One of the challenges we have with HyperFlex is that they have a subscription fee for the operating system that runs on it, and if I remember correctly, it costs approximately $15,000 USD per month."

"Here in Brazil... it is very expensive. It's very hard for almost all companies to buy even the small version of this solution."

"It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year."

"Price-wise, it is a pretty good product. The product's price was one of the main criteria that made my company choose it over the other products in the market."

"When comparing this solution to other OEM solutions it is relatively inexpensive."