We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure 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."A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"When we need additional storage but want to keep the size of the SANs manageable, the StarWind Virtual SAN has allowed me to do everything needed."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very 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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's deployment phase is pretty easy."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor HCI is the built-in recovery functionality. The migration is simple to do from other solutions, such as VMware."
"It was not expensive at all."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"You can get almost all the features of the tool at a low cost. The tool also has built-in backup mechanisms. It also has a physical firewall for internet management which other competitors lack."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"The manageability feature is the most important aspect of the solution."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"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."
"Sangfor’s hypervisor is not mature enough to handle all the flavors related to industrial needs."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"The migration process could be easier."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"The initialization is not fully automated and has room for improvement."
"The processing speed and cost should be improved."
"It should have object storage. It already has network virtualization and micro-segmentation, but it is missing object storage. It does not have object storage. vSAN also does not have object storage, but Nutanix has object storage, and it is natively integrated into its HCI. So, if you pay for the object storage license, you have that module pre-built."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is rated 8.0, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. 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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node, VxRail and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN. See our Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series vs. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure report.
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