We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity 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 most valuable features are high availability and real-time replication between two servers."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"The way it does backups is its most valuable feature. It replicates snapshots with very low bandwidth. We only have a 50 megabit link to that site, and it doesn't really use much of it at all. Therefore, it is a really good fit for getting our backups done."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"Stability is pretty good. We have no complaints as it has been running seamlessly with no downtime."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"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."
"The VX machines are scalable."
"We find the setup quite straightforward and very easy."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"I'd love to see native export of metrics (via Prometheus or something of that nature) to allow us to get more metrics available on our existing dashboard software."
"The platform needs to improve user management and the web console."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"SimpliVity needs to improve the support for native backups, like SQL and Exchange."
"There may be issues around scaling."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"Product doesn't scale."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"I have not seen ROI."
"The user management could be a bit better. It's something they could improve upon in future releases."
"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."
"Support could be better."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series needs to improve its stability. Its resolution should be faster."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 16th in HCI with 4 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 8.6. 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 VX Series writes "simplifies management for clients familiar with VMware, and offers a user-friendly management and configuration experience". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, HPE Alletra dHCI and VMware vSAN. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series report.
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