We performed a comparison between HPE Alletra dHCI 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."The install itself is easy as pie."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The performance of the solution is accurate and concise."
"With regards to performance, configuration, and longevity it is upgradeable, which means it has a good TCO rate. These are valuable aspects to me."
"I love InfoSite. That gets you a lot of good detailed information."
"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"
"The technical support services are good."
"Very good in-line compression."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI has the most valuable features for performance, resilience, and scalability."
"We have this feature in Nimble dHCI, wherein we can upgrade individual components in the infrastructure."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is stable."
"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."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI only works with a hypervisor like VMware. There are plenty of other hypervisors that HP doesn't support. This is an area for improvement."
"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."
"I rate Nimble one out of 10 for ease of setup. Setting up Nimble Storage was a nightmare. It took us three months to deal with all the kinks and bugs. We had two people from HPE assisting us and two from our team."
"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI currently is promoting only VMware as a hypervisor, whereas if they can look into other OSs, such as KVM or Red Hat, it would be an improvement."
"The solution could improve by providing better file-level restoration and DVX system options."
"I'm not sure if there are features lacking."
"Cost-wise, this solution is slightly more expensive than other hyperconverged solutions."
"The product is expensive."
"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."
HPE Alletra dHCI is ranked 11th in HCI with 24 reviews while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked 18th in HCI with 3 reviews. HPE Alletra dHCI is rated 8.2, while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HPE Alletra dHCI writes "Independently scalable solution with the highest resiliency, low latency and intelligence ". 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 Alletra dHCI is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC Series, whereas Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is most compared with Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and VxRail. See our HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series report.
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