We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"They offer top-tier support."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"VxRail performs well in the VDI environment."
"We deploy VxRail systems to provide our customers with a distributed information solution. The customer was impressed because we delivered a serious data reduction. For example, we showed them that 10 terabytes on their traditional storage solution could be reduced to 1.5 terabytes in the VxRail systems. That's why the customers also like it so much,"
"VxRail alleviates the operational constraints within an organization."
"The assurance that my systems would not suffer a performance drop no matter where they are is valuable. I do not need any extra hardware."
"There is no in-depth config involved nor third-party needed, saving us time and money."
"It is very powerful. We find that to be the most valuable aspect. The movement of devices between nodes is very easy."
"The major advantage is the blueprint. You do not need to separately manage the sand or network part because it all gets virtualized."
"There are so many features, but if I have to choose, I would go for scale-out upgrades and performance. Scale-out upgrades are very valuable. Typically, when customers engage in virtualization, they're committing themselves to run many virtual machines on a fewer number of hosts. They'll have five or six hosts, and they will run all their virtualization on vSphere. They could be having anywhere from 50 to 100 or even more virtual machines. Once all these go into production, getting downtime or getting planned maintenance windows is extremely difficult. It is something that typically businesses will frown upon. With VxRail, you can just go ahead and add a node without disrupting the existing environment, which works very well. That's why scale-out upgrades are a key feature. Its performance is also valuable. It delivers a very high number of IOPS for a hybrid configuration or an all-flash configuration. The processors that are available in the Xeon family are very powerful. They are multi-core with typically 2 gigahertz, 2.4 gigahertz, or higher frequency, so the performance is very much appreciated."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
"The initial setup between the different Dell departments is fragmented. The engineers who come to rack/stack and do the initial config should be trained on all the areas and work with the different Dell departments whilst they are onsite to give a smoother install and better experience for customer."
"The most important thing that I want to be included in this solution is the VMware license. Its deployment time can be quicker so that instead of 40 minutes, it takes 10 minutes."
"We do not use the storage part of VxRail, we use Pure Storage to map out the VxRail because the disk performance from Pure Storage was far better than the performance of the disk on the inside of VxRail."
"Troubleshooting can be a little more difficult than legacy systems."
"Lifecycle management (LCM) should be enhanced"
"Its price needs to be improved. It is very expensive. NSX should be licensed together. It will make the network virtualization layer more usable. It would be better if they come together in a bundle, not separately."
"VxRail could be easier to set up. It's tricky to configure the network properly and match the requirements."
"At present, VxRail is a hyperconverged state of the art product being installed in a legacy way. We need hyperconverged install teams."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 21st in HCI with 1 review while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node writes "Provides a valuable concept of hyper-convergence, but its support services could be faster ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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