We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"The initial setup is simple. We were able to deliver the hyper-convergence solution in a very good time."
"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 product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"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."
"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."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series could improve by having better integration with the solutions from VMware and vCenter"
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 21st in HCI with 1 review. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is rated 8.0, while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series writes "With an easy deployment phase, the tool offers good scalability and stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node writes "Provides a valuable concept of hyper-convergence, but its support services could be faster ". Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, VxRail and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VxRail.
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