We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series 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."The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built backup system. The backup speed is also excellent."
"The HA, which means I have a copy of the VMs always available, and the moment a VM is down, the system tries to power it on again."
"If you were comparing this solution to VMware, it has more features, and it's very fast on the recovery."
"We like the fact that the hyper-converged infrastructure provides a simple to grow, easy to configure platform."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"The solution has many good features."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"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."
"Installation is straightforward because it's a vSAN. It only took one or two days."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"I would like to see improvement in the hardware underneath it. Currently, it's a Gen9 DL380. One day, there will be a Gen10 DL380 and maybe they will have bigger or smaller sizes."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"The storage efficiency is weak and needs to be improved."
"The solution is not very stable."
"This solution is very costly."
"We have faced some challenges when upgrading. With Hyper Converged, you have to fully upgrade because there are no incremental upgrades available in this solution. For example, let's say we have two nodes. If we want to upgrade storage, we also need to upgrade computing. That means a full upgrade EME."
"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."
"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."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 15th in HCI with 4 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and FlexPod XCS, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE SimpliVity. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series report.
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