We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and StarWind Virtual SAN 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."The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's deployment phase is pretty easy."
"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."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"We are able to execute maintenance on one server while the other is still running."
"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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"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."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series could improve by having better integration with the solutions from VMware and vCenter"
"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."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is rated 8.0, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series writes "With an easy deployment phase, the tool offers good scalability and stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". 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, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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