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"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"The product’s ecosystem is better than Nutanix’s."
"Being hyperconverged, it simplifies what equipment we have to buy."
"VMware vSAN has greatly reduced refresh spending."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"We had very good access to technical support."
"It is simple to manage, very easy to implement and troubleshoot in case of any failures."
"The technical support is good. We are always thankful for the technical support from VMware. They are very supportive when we have a technical problem."
"vSAN has just one datastore. so customers do not need to think where to put their VMs, how to design the physical disk RAID, the LUN size, the LUN mapping, etc. when they use NetApp/EMC/HDS or other storage systems."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
"VMware vSAN could improve by adding NAS and object storage."
"I would like to see replication as part of it. I would also like to see direct file access, being able to run SIF shares and NFS and the like. I think that would be critical to continuing the use of it going forward."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"The solution functions as the marketing says, as long as you follow certain rules."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
"We often run out of space but we have enough capacity for memory and CPU. It's difficult to find the balance between storage and memory CPU."
"The pricing could be better when it comes to renewing the licenses."
"I would like to see some of the more traditional SAN functions that are out the now. I can list them: being able to Snapshot on the back-end, better de-dupe, and better compression. Those are the major ones."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 22nd in HCI with 1 review while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VxRail, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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