We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX 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."StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"In addition to the main functions of the software, I want to note the excellent work of technical support."
"Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"There is no single feature that's the most valuable. All of SimpliVity's components work together to make daily operations easier for our customers."
"The ease of use on the backup and DR and replication side of things is good. It can be done by a VMware admin with no additional training."
"Technical support is perfect. They explain to us the solution in a very clear and simple way. When we call them, they know the right answer and get the right person automatically."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"The backup and recovery is very fast, effective, and easy to use."
"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."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"The only point they should improve is the amount of documentation available for the user, especially in the first preliminary phase in which we were testing the product on our own."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"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."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"SimpliVity has little to no integrations."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"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."
"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"
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is rated 8.0. 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 HX Series writes "With an easy deployment phase, the tool offers good scalability and stability". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Scale Computing HC3, whereas 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. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series report.
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