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We performed a comparison between Cohesity C4000 Series and Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly.""The performance of the solution is accurate and concise.""It's quite easy to manage.""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.""I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful.""Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us.""Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced.""StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."

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"I find all the features of this solution excellent. The ability to move data to the public cloud is valuable."

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"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."

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Cons
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time.""I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN.""The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers.""The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas.""It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted.""I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI.""To enable the proactive support capability that is part of our support agreement, I would ask that the terms and conditions be revised and made acceptable to corporate security.""It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."

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"The pricing and the partnerships with AWS and Azure can be improved."

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"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."

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  • "The setup cost is very low. The pricing is great."
  • "We are happy with the price."
  • "The license is reusable. We can always rebuild it and apply the license. Then, boom, we get new servers, apply the license, and we're back up and running."
  • "The pricing is fine for the work that it does."
  • "When we did all the analysis for StarWind, it was approximately 20 percent less than any of the other solutions that we looked at."
  • "The scalability limitation for us is its licensing. At some point in the fairly near future, we will probably have to upgrade our license so we can store eight terabytes instead of four. We are currently at four terabytes, but we're starting to knock on the door of that capacity."
  • "The pricing is excellent. It will run on anything. You don't have to buy a $100,000 server, with hardware you don't need. You just pay for the license and you're good to go."
  • "The licensing is a bit weird. If you license the standard version of StarWind, it allows you four terabytes. Then, they have a pro version, but with the pro version, the only difference is it doubles the terabytes to eight."
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    Top Answer:The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence.
    Top Answer:Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster.
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    StarWind SAN & NAS
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    Overview

    StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.

    Building blocks for the Cohesity DataPlatform
    Each Cohesity C4000 hyperconverged node provides compute, flash and HDD capacity to consolidate data and execute workflows. Scale your capacity as needed, starting with as little as three nodes, and scale out linearly by adding individual nodes.

    Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Nodes are designed for deploying highly available, highly scalable hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and software-defined storage (SDS) from Microsoft on Lenovo enterprise platforms. The ThinkAgile MX Certified Nodes deliver fully validated and integrated Lenovo hardware and firmware that is certified for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI solutions.

    This product guide provides essential technical and pre-sales information on the Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node for Hybrid Storage, its key features and specifications, components and options, and configuration guidelines.

    This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the ThinkAgile MX Certified Node and consider its use in IT solutions.

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    Cohesity C4000 Series is ranked 28th in HCI while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 22nd in HCI with 1 review. Cohesity C4000 Series is rated 9.0, while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Cohesity C4000 Series writes "Provides superior backups, protection from ransomware, and the ability to move data to the public cloud". 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 ". Cohesity C4000 Series is most compared with HPE SimpliVity, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VxRail.

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