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, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"The failover redundancy is why we bought this product and it has never let us down."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the concept of hyper-convergence."
"We deploy VxRail systems to provide our customers with a distributed information solution. The customer was impressed because we delivered a serious data reduction. For example, we showed them that 10 terabytes on their traditional storage solution could be reduced to 1.5 terabytes in the VxRail systems. That's why the customers also like it so much,"
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"The scalability of VxRail is very good."
"This is a good solution if you want to deploy an ACI Environment but don't have all the necessary resources."
"First and foremost, I would advise people to purchase this solution mainly for the simplicity of the system. And it's all managed in one place, which is nice compared to Nutanix where you had to administrate multiple places. And, the support now is so good."
"The technical support is very helpful and answers questions whenever we have issues with the product."
"It is scalable. When you are buying it, you have to buy a minimum of three nodes. After that, if you want to add more nodes, you can buy can buy them. You can also add-on additional compute and storage."
"Dell owns the EMC, EMC owns VMware, and there are many other interconnections throughout the industry which allows a fully integrated solution from a technical perspective."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"An extended trial period would serve as a way to get clean insights into the technology's adaptability and alignment with their specific needs before committing to long-term integration."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"Sometimes documentation on their site can be out of date."
"Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node’s support services could be faster."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having more storage performance because in some other solutions you can have a file system that can be mounted at several places at one time."
"The most important thing that I want to be included in this solution is the VMware license. Its deployment time can be quicker so that instead of 40 minutes, it takes 10 minutes."
"The UI could be a little more informative."
"You have to buy a new server if you want to scale up."
"It could be improved by having more information on the integration portion of ACI."
"It might offer better integration with other products."
"Technically speaking, the vCenter and the administration of the integration of the vCenter could be improved."
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Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node is ranked 20th in HCI with 1 review while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 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 Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged.
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