We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node and VxRail 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 I can now count on a true failover solution is what is most appealing."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"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."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) offers a significant breadth of features."
"The support team is available to solve any problem efficiently."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"The most valuable feature for me in this latest release has been the ability to add a compute or storage node. In the previous release, if I wanted to add only the compute mode, I need to buy a full node, including both compute and storage. That is no longer the case; I can upgrade whatever I want one based on my demand."
"This product has given us clear visibility into what we need technology-wise to grow."
"The stability of VxRail is good, we have not had any issues."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it allows everything to be integrated into a single model, comprised of hardware and software."
"Being able to perform upgrades and check the system through the VxRail Manager has been very helpful."
"The cover points feature in VxRail is remarkable. It's unique. It has an intervention failover system as well as an automatic failover system, reaching clusters existing in VxRail. This makes all files act as a single file with a large and huge resource, and, of course, with customized administration, configuration, and resources. It provides automatic failover for redundancy and data recovery."
"The most compelling aspect of VxRail lies in its unwavering guarantee of sustained performance for my systems, regardless of their geographical distribution."
"VxRail simplifies IT infrastructure management by providing a single management console for compute, storage, and network. The second advantage is that VxRail offers a continuously validated architecture from the OEM. This means that Dell thoroughly tests all firmware updates before being released or installed on the product, helping to prevent compatibility issues. The third benefit is its ten-year roadmap. Dell consistently announces a roadmap for the product spanning the next decade."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"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."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
"When it comes to maintenance, it takes 16 hours to upgrade a 12 node VxRail plus. This could be improved in the system."
"I would prefer it if each cell had a tool geared toward billing clients."
"The implementation of a VxRail, it's straightforward, but the ongoing utilization, and integration, are where it can start to become difficult if you're not used to doing it."
"Next release, we would like to see online applications."
"There could be better documentation and they should allow everyone to access the simulator."
"When using hybrid nodes, such as VxRail, there should not be compression and deduplication, only in All-Flash nodes."
"It should not be deployed on one hypervisor. There should be multiple hypervisors supported like Hyper-V or KVM."
"In the next release, maybe they could add in integration with the hyper-cloud so it will be easier to do the movement up and back to the cloud in order to scale in and scale out."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 21st in HCI with 1 review while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node writes "Provides a valuable concept of hyper-convergence, but its support services could be faster ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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