We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and VMware vSAN 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."StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"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."
"The initial setup is simple. We were able to deliver the hyper-convergence solution in a very good time."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"It allows us to put our infrastructure in remote locations and still get the same performance we get from our onsite SAN solutions."
"It has a single pane of glass for management and operational control, which is the most valuable feature. The integrated storage is also valuable."
"VMware vSAN is easy to implement in a VMware environment and it is not expensive."
"I like the tolerance of VMware vSAN."
"The feature we have found most valuable is the compatibility of VMware products with VCF and VMware Cloud Foundation."
"This solution has a dashboard that you can log into and control if you need too while the VM is getting created."
"The lower skill cost of maintaining it meant that we could do more with the people that we had."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"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"
"There needs to be an increase in the supported memory and hard disk space, as it is an area where the product currently has certain shortcomings."
"One of the things that we've had challenges with are when we place hosts into maintenance mode. Sometimes doing so triggers large re-sync processes which can be time-consuming and which have, at times, pushed the capacity to the threshold. I definitely think making some changes in that area would provide some big improvements."
"The product's complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The price for the hard drive, for vSAN, is very expensive."
"Disaster recovery needs to be improved, when there is a crisis, there is a problem with what is the quickest way to get out of it."
"The integration could be improved. I would like to see integration with other platforms."
"The technical support, it's not satisfactory. Whenever we raise a ticket it takes a lot of time to have an engineer get involved sometimes, or we receive a less experienced engineer. We then have to repeat the situation to the next engineer which all takes time."
"The solution functions as the marketing says, as long as you follow certain rules."
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked 19th in HCI with 3 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". 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, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series vs. VMware vSAN report.
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