We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series 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."They offer top-tier support."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"HPE Hyper Converged is stable."
"The HPE Hyper Converged solution is used in a hybrid cloud configuration. We assess the disk space and partition additional capacity."
"It's a very complete product with residencies to protect data and secure it end-to-end. It includes storage, computing, and networking, offering a fully ten-key solution."
"It is easy to manage; the administration is simpler. It saves a lot of rack space in the data center because you can consolidate 20 servers into three to five nodes. The client will be able to benefit from power savings and cost savings as well."
"Hyper-convergence is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We can avoid downtime when there's maintenance or updates needed. Also, we have homogenous hardware, so we have a lot of trust in the solution's reliability."
"The solution has many good features."
"The most valuable features of the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series are the ease of use and simple configuration."
"The initial setup is simple. We were able to deliver the hyper-convergence solution in a very good time."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's deployment phase is pretty easy."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"One of the things that can be improved is that today, is supporting VMware, maybe as a hypervisor. But it would be good to have an open kind of platform for other hypervisors, maybe. Like Nutanix is doing, it's very open."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The improvements could be customization and backup efficiency."
"The product must provide more storage capability."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"The solution is not very stable."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series could improve by having better integration with the solutions from VMware and vCenter"
"Here in Nigeria, the only challenge that we have, which I think is also experienced globally is the delay in bringing in the spare parts. This is a challenge facing our country, such as the Forex market. However, this is beyond the control of Lenovo themselves."
"There is a delay in the availability of similar versions of firmware from both the products, which are VMware and Nutanix for Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, due to the delayed releases from both products, maybe by a quarter or so."
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 10th in HCI with 34 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series writes "With an easy deployment phase, the tool offers good scalability and stability". HPE Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, VxRail and HPE Alletra dHCI. See our HPE Hyper Converged vs. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series report.
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