We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series and VMware vSAN 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.
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"Installation is straightforward because it's a vSAN. It only took one or two days."
"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."
"The VX machines are scalable."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple."
"The solution is stable."
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"vSAN is scalable for us. If any additional capacity needs to be included, we just add to the host and configure the vSAN cluster."
"It has a single pane of glass for management and operational control, which is the most valuable feature. The integrated storage is also valuable."
"VMware vSAN is a global solution, so we can manage all the storage solutions in one place. It's embedded in VCI solutions."
"It's completely hyper-converged, so it's very convenient."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"I would like to see more advanced free versions."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"Support could be better."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series needs to improve its stability. Its resolution should be faster."
"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."
"Lacks an integrated backup solution."
"We would like to see even more storage capacity."
"I would like to see better integration between the cloud and our VMware virtual environment. We only have one virtual environment, which is VMware vSAN. Right now, there is little interoperability with the cloud solution at the moment."
"The customer service is good but there is a cost for it. It does not come free."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"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."
"Customers who are using Essentials Plus or even Essentials have to pay for technical support. However, they should not have to pay for support."
"The only thing that can be improved is the cost."
Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 16th in HCI with 4 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 8.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, HPE Alletra dHCI and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series vs. VMware vSAN report.
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