We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX 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."Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"It's quite easy to install."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"The best feature is its ease of installation and integration within a current infrastructure."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"In terms of HPE SimpliVity's most valuable features, its backup integration is a good thing. Its performance is very good as is the whole integration."
"We can get backups faster. We have a smaller footprint for hardware, which takes up less space. So, we use less electricity and floor space."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"The storage efficiency is valuable."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"The most valuable features of the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series are the ease of use and simple configuration."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's deployment phase is pretty easy."
"The initial setup is simple. We were able to deliver the hyper-convergence solution in a very good time."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"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."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series writes "With an easy deployment phase, the tool offers good scalability and stability". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, VxRail and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series report.
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