We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The user interface for this application is amazing."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"StarWind vSAN is easy to deploy and administer."
"The HPE SimpliVity disc compression is very valuable."
"It's a very nice solution. It's a complete solution that we are looking for because we don't have personnel with expertise."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"It is a stable solution."
"Best for companies just starting out."
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series' deployment is easy. We are a tier-one platinum partner who is into multiple implementations."
"Installation is straightforward because it's a vSAN. It only took one or two days."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"I would like some reporting about backup and replication."
"HPE SimpliVity could be more flexible and scalable. I don't feel SimpliVity is flexible or easily scalable because I still need to buy another server to add to my clusters. I can't just run or harvest and add to my solution. I need to buy another server. There are a lot of components that are not giving a lot of value to me right now. I also had a few problems with the built-in hard disk drives. I've had many issues with the harvest stripes that the servers use. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's unusual to have a physical failure on the HPE platform. I don't see any value at the software level, especially in the software that manages that solution. I was waiting for something, especially in the application layer that I would use, but that is all over VMware, and it doesn't have an integrated module that I can use to manage the server and all the instances."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"They could have better-specialized support for more countries."
"The product should be competitive with other brands."
"There is a file size limitation when you want to do an individual file restore, but they might have resolved this in newer versions. As I'm taking backups at the VM server level, I can restore a file from any one of those without standing up the VM, and I can restore it to any mounted VM that I want. The problem is that there is a file size limitation. It becomes problematic when I'm trying to restore. When I want to restore a backup of a SQL database, my backups are considerably larger than 10 gigs. So, the only way to restore that backup file is to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it, which doesn't take long at all."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"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 26 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 16th in HCI with 2 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.4, while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series writes "Quick installation and useful for Oracle database and file server". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE Hyper Converged.
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