Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series vs Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series comparison

Hitachi Vantara and Lenovo are both solutions in the HCI category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #23, while Lenovo is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.0. Hitachi Vantara holds a 0.4% mindshare in HCI, compared to Lenovo’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Lenovo users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series are competing products in the IT infrastructure category. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series appears to have the upper hand due to its richer feature set, which justifies its higher cost.

Features: Hitachi offers easy integration, high performance, and strong scalability options. Lenovo provides versatility, agility, and support for multiple hypervisors, making it suitable for diverse IT environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Hitachi is known for efficient deployment and robust support, ensuring smooth integration with existing systems. Lenovo offers comprehensive support and quick deployment, highlighting its focus on customer satisfaction. While ease of deployment favors Hitachi due to its integration ease, strong customer support gives Lenovo an edge.

Pricing and ROI: Hitachi presents competitive pricing, making it a cost-effective option with solid ROI for organizations prioritizing integration. Lenovo's higher upfront cost is mitigated by its extensive features, providing a favorable ROI through long-term operational benefits. Pricing benefits Hitachi, but Lenovo offers valuable return over time with its high utility features.

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Categories and Ranking

Hitachi Unified Compute Pla...

Ranking in HCI

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series

Ranking in HCI

18th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

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No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the HCI category, the mindshare of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series is 0.4%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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it_user583272

Presales Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Storage Virtualization is the most mature in the market, but other brands have more features

An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc.

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Adeel Hashmi

IT Technical Advisor at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

With an easy deployment phase, the tool offers good scalability and stability

Suppose you don't compare Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series with the newest features available in the other variants of the product, then everything is pretty standard, so I cannot pinpoint any areas of issue in particular. With Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, the firmware from VMware or Nutanix takes time to be made available compared to other products that we use in our company's IT environment. If you want to go to a certain version of VMware and check what Nutanix offers, you see that both the offerings don't go hand in hand, and you have to wait for a quarter or two quarters until you see the same versions of both being made available for the other products, like Dell or HPE. 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. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in a solution. In future releases of the product, I may want some improvements to be made in the products from Nutanix and VMware.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"This solution allowed us to move from using standalone systems to having all our data center management in one place."

"In our implementations, HDS Storage Virtualization has helped in migrating data with the least amount of downtime, compared to other storage technologies."

"The replication technology can move data faster than EMC MirrorView and requires less bandwidth. The Storage Virtualization technology is the most mature in the market, outside of IBM’s Storwize (which has a lot of compatibility issues, and EMC’s very expensive VPLEX solution); and it works."

"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."

Cons

"An update to its technology would be good. The G Series has been around for more than five years and HDS seriously needs to ramp up, since the competition has better performance at a lower cost with better features and functionalities. For example, it needs redirect on write Snapshot, preconfigured storage tiering with better IOPS, built-in deduplication technology on hybrid disk, etc."

"An area for improvement would be technical support. In the next release, I would like to see more features added to make this a more complete solution."

"HDS reaches a ceiling depending on model. The G200 cannot transition to G400, the G400 can transition to G600 but cannot transition to G800, which is the top-end model."

"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."

"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."

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"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."

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

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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.

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Also Known As

HDS Unified Compute Platform, Hitachi UCP, Hitachi UCP Select

Lenovo HX Series, ThinkAgile HX Series

Overview

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) is the company's product for converged infrastructure (CI), combining resources server, storage, networking, virtualization, and software management.

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Designed for easy deployment and manageability in scale-out clusters, the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series combines Nutanix software with Lenovo’s highly reliable and scalable servers. These appliances ship fully integrated, tested, and configured so that you can dramatically accelerate your time to value and reduce your infrastructure maintenance.

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Asia Capital Reinsurance, RMZ, Cigniti Technologies, SPAR, Infosys

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