We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"This solution enables us to make better cost-effective use of our existing hardware and leverage the current infrastructure at a higher level than we could before."
"The StarWind products have enabled our organization to modernize stations where larger and more expensive equipment was not an option."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The features I have found most valuable are the convergence of the infrastructure and multi-platform support, for example, VMware and Hyper-V"
"It is easy to set up."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"The solution's simplicity is its most valuable feature. The usability is also good."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"The solution is scalable."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"They require more media visibility."
"I'm not a technical guy, and I am pretty much okay with the way it is, but it would help if it was closest to Nutanix in Gartner's Magic Quadrants. Nutanix very often beats us. Nutanix provides Acropolis for free. It probably would be great if we have a virtualization layer. It is something that might be lacking in our solution. We depend on VMware, and it is very expensive. It is lacking the software that allows us to install it with HPE and not depend on a third party."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"The installation process could be simplified. It's a bit technical for non-IT users."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 22nd in HCI with 1 review. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0. 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 MX Certified Node writes "Provides a valuable concept of hyper-convergence, but its support services could be faster ". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VxRail.
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