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."The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's deployment phase is pretty easy."
"Provides good performance as well as integration with deployment tools."
"Technical support is very helpful and very good at resolving issues."
"Good performance, reliable and agile."
"vSAN can help customers save on storage system costs, and also save on the human cost."
"The performance has exceeded our expectations and exceeded our traditional converged infrastructure."
"There is not a lot of maintenance required."
"The most valuable feature for our customers is vMotion. It allows them to shut down virtual machines and migrate them to others servers."
"Easy-to-use, and easy-to-scale product."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"For improvement, I would like to see how the software determines which networks to use for which purpose. It seems like the naming terminology changes a bit from here to there."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series could improve by having better integration with the solutions from VMware and vCenter"
"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."
"The quality of the customer service and support depends on the vSAN case. For example, if I open ten cases, maybe two or three get resolved quickly. But the other cases have a slow response."
"They can improve the manageability of the solution to make it more simple. It is not that complicated, but it will be good if they can make it more simple."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"It would be ideal if clients didn't need to monitor the solution on a daily basis."
"It can be very expensive."
"I would like to see it be more hardware-agnostic. Other than that, the only other complication is - and it has gotten better with the newer versions - that lately, once you're running an all-flash, if you need to grow or scale down your infrastructure, it's a long process. You need to evacuate all data and make sure you have enough space on the host, then add more hosts or take out hosts. That process is a little bit complex. You cannot scale as needed or shrink as needed."
"Its integration with a hybrid cloud can be improved. Its scalability can also be improved so that it can be integrated with more than 32 nodes. The maximum number of nodes is okay, but our use cases could probably do with more nodes, probably up to 64. In terms of new features, it should probably have the basic support for high-speed networking spaces."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten."
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 227 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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