We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI 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."The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The ability to run a two-node cluster without a dedicated witness has made this an excellent product for small deployments, which is right on target for our needs in regional offices."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"The solution works well."
"So far, the solution's performance is very good."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."
"The technical support services are good."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"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."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"The reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"While we had no problems setting the system up, and service technicians from StarWind could assist us very well, they could provide some form of in-depth documentation."
"This product would benefit from having automated alerting functionality."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"Sometimes the technical support would get back to us in two hours, but other times it would take them two or even three days to respond."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
"It can be made cheaper."
"They should improve just the support."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
"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."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series could improve by having better integration with the solutions from VMware and vCenter"
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 12th in HCI with 24 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". 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 Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VxRail. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series report.
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