We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"The installation of StarWind Virtual SAN was pretty easy, and the configuration was done in no time."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"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."
"Having this all backed up by pro-active support gives us good peace of mind."
"The solution has provided our company with a fully redundant virtual environment at half the cost of a traditional SAN implementation."
"The solution has easily deployed instances for multiple fast-paced projects."
"The pricing and discounts given by Starwind on the hardware were unmatched."
"With proactive support, StarWind deploys and configures the solution for you."
"Live migration between nodes was quick and simple."
"The product runs wonderfully and has already gone through several failure tests."
"We run probably 16 virtual machines, and all of them are now highly available, and highly redundant."
"Perhaps more reporting features on the utilization, usage, and performance of the configured high-availability images and underlying physical disks would be helpful."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"The gathering of monthly consumption and performance reports for future dissemination to concerned parties is very important. Unfortunately, StarWinds vSAN doesn't offer this functionality."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series needs to improve its stability. Its resolution should be faster."
"Support could be better."
"Although the setup documentation was very complete and succinct, I found StarWind documentation to be a bit sparse."
"Perhaps the initial configuration and documentation could be a little clearer and simpler to follow."
"Maybe they could have a support portal that you can have direct access to a current support representative."
"The StarWind Command Center web portal could use some work."
"The overall product documentation and knowledgebase articles could use some rewriting and clarification."
"The only thing that can use improvement is the StarWind Management Console and Command Center."
"At times there has been a language barrier when communicating issues."
"I'd like a better UI and some limitations on "breaking it.""
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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked 16th in HCI with 2 reviews while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 36 reviews. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is rated 9.0, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.8. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series writes "Quick installation and useful for Oracle database and file server". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Excellent support and documentation with flexible pricing". Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is most compared with VxRail, Dell vSAN Ready Nodes, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HPE SimpliVity, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), StorMagic SvSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and HPE SimpliVity.
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