We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"Support keeps track of alerts of the system and verifies with us if we need help to fix any issues. They have great and quick technical support."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"The technical support is very helpful and answers questions whenever we have issues with the product."
"The stability continues to get better and better. It's pretty reliable."
"The manageability for controlling the console is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the storage is integrated with the VxRail so I don't have to go in between systems when I have to monitor my storage."
"This solution optimizes our clients' resources."
"The recent technologies and management features that have been implemented."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar environments."
"The ease of deployment and management of the solution are the most valuable aspects of the product."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
"The only issue which is every now and again is that when you log in it will tell you that there's an issue with VxRail when there actually isn't. All that's required is a refresh or reload. The solution itself works but you may get some bad reports every now and again. Probably once every couple of months; there is no effect to the solution's capabilities."
"The licensing costs are too expensive. They should work on their pricing model."
"VxRail is a closed system with an out-of-the -box solution approach, it has basic 3 layers, Hardware, Network, Storage, Software, (Virtualizing) Applications. Release notes and improvement tips, patches from the back office, the business units, should be frequent and up to the patches which are coming from different vendors as far as the operating system application and also the technology itself is concerned."
"I wish for the performance environment to be improved."
"The scalability is limited to a single cluster with 64 nodes."
"What I did not like so much was the amount of VMware that you have to put in your system related to the VxRail."
"What I find very valuable is VxRail's life cycle management. The life cycle management takes care of everything from firmware to the actual upgrading of the hypervisor and keeps everything up to level."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 22nd in HCI with 1 review while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node writes "Provides a valuable concept of hyper-convergence, but its support services could be faster ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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