Cisco HyperFlex HX220c M5 vs Lenovo ThinkAgile VX3320
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco HyperFlex HX220c M5 was a 1U hyperconverged infrastructure node powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP). The Lenovo ThinkAgile VX3320 is a 1U dual-socket VMware vSAN appliance designed for compute-heavy enterprise virtualization and VDI deployments.
| Cisco HyperFlex HX220c M5 | Lenovo ThinkAgile VX3320 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | May 2018 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Processor | Up to 2x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each | Up to 2x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 165W TDP) |
| Memory | Up to 24x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 3TB | 24x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 1.5TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM |
| Storage capacity | Available in all-flash (up to 8x SSDs) and hybrid (1x SSD cache + 7x SAS HDDs) configurations | — |
| Hyperconverged software | Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP) | — |
| Network | Cisco VIC 1387 / 1457 modular LOM providing unified fabric integration with UCS Fabric Interconnects | Dual 10/25GbE optical ports via LOM card with RDMA / RoCE support |
| Management | Cisco Intersight and VMware vCenter integration | VMware vCenter and Lenovo XClarity Integrator |
| Storage pools | — | Up to 10x 2.5-inch all-flash SAS/SATA/NVMe SSD bays with separate cache and capacity disk groups |
| Hypervisor | — | VMware ESXi and VMware vSAN |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-swap 750W or 1100W Platinum power supplies |
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