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."This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
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"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"It's quite easy to install."
"It is easy to set up."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"The compression and deduplication features are most valuable because they allow us to have a small footprint for storage. It is a very stable product, and we are also able to get all that we need in terms of reporting."
"The initial setup is simple. We were able to deliver the hyper-convergence solution in a very good time."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's deployment phase is pretty easy."
"The most valuable features of the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series are the ease of use and simple configuration."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"This is a great product."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"Its performance can be faster."
"We have had some failures out-of-the-box. We have had some failures with the OmniStack module. One thing that we didn't fully understand was how much of the internal memory was used up by the OmniStack piece, which basically makes up SimpliVity."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series could improve by having better integration with the solutions from VMware and vCenter"
"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."
"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."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, 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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