We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX 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."It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"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."
"It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combines flash and disks of the cluster and forms a virtual shared storage “pool” accessible by all hosts. StarWind cuts down virtualization cost and complexity by eliminating the need for a physical shared storage (SAN). -StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured . we get technical support from star wind team when implementation software and after setup if we face any issue."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"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."
"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."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"We can backup with more frequency and minimize RPO and RTO."
"The solution is scalable."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"We find the setup quite straightforward and very easy."
"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 ran into an issue with alerts."
"This solution should be more self-sufficient, running without creating domains or failover clusters."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"The initial setup was a little complex because we were in the first version, fresh releases."
"I would love it if the solution would auto data balance within the cluster. It is possible, and eventually, it will be likely that certain nodes within the same cluster will hold more data than the other nodes."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"We definitely want to see more of the CLI commands come up to the GUI, and it is a legitimate question, if we are going to be happy with the integration in the vsphere web client, which is awfully slow."
"The user management could be a bit better. It's something they could improve upon in future releases."
"Support could be better."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series needs to improve its stability. Its resolution should be faster."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 148 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 16th in HCI with 3 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 8.6. 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 VX Series writes "A stable solution that needs to improve stability and resolution". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE StoreVirtual, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, HPE Alletra dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series report.
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