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 product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"I like the asynchronous replication and failover features. They are what I'm primarily using it for. The asynchronous replication is helpful because our servers are backed up continuously throughout the day. If anything goes wrong we just fail over immediately. That is a very nice feature to have."
"Simply being able to move objects and the duplication feature have been quite effective."
"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."
"Very good in-line compression."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The nice thing about it is that it truly integrates with the cloud, so I can move my volumes bi-directionally in and out of the cloud."
"Nimble Storage is a capable platform with high availability."
"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."
"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."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"They require more media visibility."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"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."
"The product’s performance needs improvement. It could also help with more environment monitoring and AI technologies to improve the performance and thresholds."
"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."
"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."
"Nimble Storage's integration with the management software could be better."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."
"It can be made cheaper."
"They should improve just the support."
"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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