We performed a comparison between Dell vSAN Ready Nodes and Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"The StarWind tech support is extremely helpful, especially during the initial setup."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The tool's most valuable feature is high availability."
"I have found the most important features of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are the capacity to manage the storage because the storage is built in the servers. The type of profiles you can attribute to the storage is a benefit. You can manage the storage by profiles. Overall the solution is a good speed and performance."
"The most valuable feature of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is file sharing."
"You don't have to spend much time evaluating the hardware. It can be deployed in a short time. The tool is also easy to upgrade."
"No concerns regarding the footprint in the data center."
"They are heading in the right direction and moving to integrate everything with a hybrid cloud, and moving workloads back and forth."
"The most valuable feature is the set of user tools that are available."
"The solution immediately expands storage area when you add nodes."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"If there was one feature I would like to see it would be a built-in subsystem for managing UPS backups shutdown procedures providing a way to initiate VM shutdown on all host servers, shut down the host servers, then put the fault-tolerant mirroring in standby, and finally shut down the StarWind SANs."
"When you will cease your contract with StarWind (for support) your product won't be updated and that is a big selling point, especially for us, as we have loads of products from StarWind."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes is a great hyper-converged system that is a perfect platform for supporting any kind of workload. The only workload that it's not designed to support is big data."
"The solution doesn't scale."
"There is room for improvement in the maintenance pricing. Maintenance isn't difficult, but the prices are high and ridiculous. Some customers feel it is better to go with a new solution rather than renew this one."
"Scalability is an area that could be improved. We are looking at a maximum of 32 nodes now in a cluster, but going to 64 or 128 would be a major advantage."
"The solution should provide daily task alerts for data recovery maintenance, usage, and other instructions to ensure the systems are in a good status."
"Upgrades are carried out manually."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes must be flexible since it is complex in designing concepts. It needs to improve stability. The product should integrate with the public cloud."
"Dell vSAN Ready Nodes' deployment is complex."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
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Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is ranked 11th in HCI with 14 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 21st in HCI with 1 review. Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is rated 8.6, while Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Dell vSAN Ready Nodes writes "Offers good performance and is easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node writes "Provides a valuable concept of hyper-convergence, but its support services could be faster ". Dell vSAN Ready Nodes is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Dell PowerFlex and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and VxRail.
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