We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX 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 ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) offers a significant breadth of features."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"It also provides a high degree of mobility, as the virtual SAN can be moved relatively painlessly between on-site devices and the cloud."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The pricing of the solution is very good."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"The solution is scalable."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The compression and deduplication features are most valuable because they allow us to have a small footprint for storage. It is a very stable product, and we are also able to get all that we need in terms of reporting."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"Installation is straightforward because it's a vSAN. It only took one or two days."
"The VX machines are scalable."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series' deployment is easy. We are a tier-one platinum partner who is into multiple implementations."
"We find the setup quite straightforward and very easy."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"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."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"We had minor problems with the initial setup but it was with our internal infrastructure."
"Upgrading the firmware/software could be more seamless."
"They should optimize the administration stack because it is consuming too much memory. It ends up consuming 20% of memory. They have another product for this feature, but I would like to have this feature within HPE SimpliVity."
"The solution could improve by adding better support of the VMware add-ons and a more intuitive user interface for administrators."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"I can say that the support was better when it was a separate company, when it was SimpliVity. But, now with HPE it has not been quite as good. B"
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"The user management could be a bit better. It's something they could improve upon in future releases."
"With the VX machines, the clients often confuse the hardware itself with the services and resources. VMs are configured according to resources - memory, hard disk capacity, and network. These resources, including memory and processor, are actually shared on the VX Series. So, if the server's processor is underpowered or unreliable for the VMs, many of the VMs will encounter issues. Ideally, the physical server configuration should align more closely with the needs of the virtual servers."
"Support could be better."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series needs to improve its stability. Its resolution should be faster."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 19th in HCI with 4 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series writes "simplifies management for clients familiar with VMware, and offers a user-friendly management and configuration experience". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, HPE Alletra dHCI and VMware vSAN. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series report.
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