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"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"It helps simplify the management of VMware."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the storage is integrated with the VxRail so I don't have to go in between systems when I have to monitor my storage."
"You don't have to worry too much about the hardware and you don't have to work on integrating a storage device. We instead have this as an all-in-one solution and everything is available as a box."
"This is a good solution for medium-sized installations especially when it will be coupled with VMware."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar environments."
"We like the design and that it meets data storage needs."
"The initial setup is simple."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"Some configuration options still demand service restarting."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
"The way that the VxRail is licensed could be improved."
"We have some issues, but they are possibly out-of-the-box issues. There was a host that was dead on arrival, and there were some file issues on other hosts. We're currently working actively with Dell to resolve all these issues. Once they are resolved, the product should be stable."
"Sometimes during implementation, you can some scripting errors. And there are some issues when we update the version. There are some issues like the version will not get updated or stable at some time. Dell needs to resolve these problems, we don't waste time fixing them."
"If they continue developing their product regarding VMware, it will be one of the best products in the HCI space. In terms of additional features, there is nothing missing because, for data protection, they also have the CDP option for VM. They can protect the VM at any point in time."
"My customers want more storage for university databases."
"I would like to see Dell take a crack at simplifying the process of moving from a node to a cluster and assembling everything into the appliance. It would be great if Dell could provide a pathway where a customer could actually install it without the certifications. Of course, I can't say how you would dumb down something so complex."
"The product could support and have more compliance with other vendors."
"The version upgrade process should be simplified."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 22nd in HCI with 1 review while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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