We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"The customer support provided by StarWind is excellent."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"My day-to-day experiences are better now that my backups are no longer running into production."
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"We have not had any problem with customer support at SimpliVity."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"The initial setup was complex because it was a new solution."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 22nd in HCI with 1 review. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". 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 ". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Rubrik, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and VxRail.
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