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"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"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."
"Speed and high availability have been the most valuable for us."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"The updating of the features was one aspect of the solution that made us decide to use it."
"The installation process is very quick. When you purchase it, it's up and running without much delay. Adding any additional components is simple, allowing for easy and fast scaling without adding complexity. The centralized management portal makes it easy to manage the entire system."
"We deploy VxRail systems to provide our customers with a distributed information solution. The customer was impressed because we delivered a serious data reduction. For example, we showed them that 10 terabytes on their traditional storage solution could be reduced to 1.5 terabytes in the VxRail systems. That's why the customers also like it so much,"
"It helps simplify the management of VMware."
"The stability is very nice. We haven't had any issues with the cluster. The cluster is very stable. No problems with slowness. Everything has been stable. It was well-architectured."
"like VxRail because it's fully integrated. The other hyperconverged solutions are also well integrated. They are all highly similar to each other in that regard. But we prefer VxRail for its physical integrations or lifecycle management. It also has vCenter, which integrates the hardware lifecycle management."
"The most valuable feature is its high performance."
"The simplicity and manageability of VxRail are most valuable. We have a very good experience with this product. Its stability and scalability are also very good."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
"Obtaining support was hindered by the frequent changes to the hotline numbers."
"I would like to see integration with vCenter if possible."
"I would prefer it if each cell had a tool geared toward billing clients."
"The licensing costs are too expensive. They should work on their pricing model."
"The way that the VxRail is licensed could be improved."
"In the version that I was working with, the integrations are in need of improvement."
"The solution is vendor-locked and Dell is the only supplier of VxRail."
"Deployment was not initially straightforward for us. We had an incompatibility issue that was very difficult for Dell Professional Service to solve."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 21st in HCI with 1 review while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 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 HPE Hyper Converged.
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