We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"Installation is straightforward because it's a vSAN. It only took one or two days."
"The VX machines are scalable."
"We find the setup quite straightforward and very easy."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series' deployment is easy. We are a tier-one platinum partner who is into multiple implementations."
"Technical support is okay."
"The configuration is easy, and it's flexible."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are storage and hyper-converged. The solution is easy to use and the administration is very good."
"The most valuable features are easy cloud administration and management."
"Acropolis has a great interface and lots of management features packaged with it at an affordable price."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure has a simple, user-friendly GUI, and I also like the remote recovery capabilities. It provides a single platform for managing databases."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"The user management could be a bit better. It's something they could improve upon in future releases."
"Support could be better."
"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."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"The price could be lower."
"The GUI of Nutanix Acropolis AOS could be improved that can be done from the OEM side. It's a very basic stable web browser that they're using. It is not very inclusive."
"The reporting section of the dashboard could be improved to include more detailed reporting about the servers."
"There could be better support for high power ESX and other cross platform applications."
"In the future, I would like to see integration with external storage using the fiber channel"
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"In a hybrid cloud setup, we should be able to port our floors from on-premises to the public cloud and from the public cloud to on-premises."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 19th in HCI with 4 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, Dell PowerFlex and Hyper-V. See our Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) report.
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