HPE Alletra dHCI vs Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo are both solutions in the HCI category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0, while Lenovo is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.0. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 4.0% mindshare in HCI, compared to Lenovo’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Lenovo users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series compete in the software-defined infrastructure category. HPE Alletra dHCI seems to have the upper hand with its streamlined management and integration capabilities, while Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series stands out through scalable architecture and comprehensive support.

Features: HPE Alletra dHCI focuses on simplicity with integrated AI and storage solutions that enhance automated operations and provide real-time insights. Its streamlined management improves efficiency for IT teams. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series prioritizes scalability with integrated networking and security features, offering comprehensive data protection and flexible infrastructure. Its architecture supports long-term growth, adapting to evolving business needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Alletra dHCI offers a simplified deployment process with excellent customer support for seamless integration. Its ease of use assists businesses in smooth operations. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series offers fast deployment with pre-configured nodes and extensive customer service, enhancing adaptability for diverse needs with its flexible architecture.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Alletra dHCI presents a compelling ROI through efficient operation and competitive pricing, attracting budget-conscious implementations. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series involves a premium setup cost but delivers value via its robust features, offering substantial advantages for organizations focusing on long-term scalability and investment.

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HPE Alletra dHCI vs. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series

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StarWind Virtual SAN

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the HCI category, the mindshare of StarWind Virtual SAN is 2.3%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Alletra dHCI is 4.0%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Ahmed Hosni

Senior System Engineer at Giza Systems

Provides a cost-effective way to run an HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor

You can maintain and update it with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost-effective point. Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems, it has always done exactly what it set out to do. It provides a cost-effective way to run an HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V. It's simple and easy to use, The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation.

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Ajit Pratap Kundan

PreSales Lead- Government & Defense at Accops Systems Pvt Ltd

A scalable product that provides zero downtime and enables organizations to manage their infrastructure from a single console

The product is easy to deploy. Everything is through GUI. We don't have to go on the command line prompt. Everything is automated. The HPE engineers take the remote console and do the basic installation. It takes 10 to 15 working days to configure the tool and hand it over to the project team. We need one architect to design the solution and check whether the API plug-ins are certified or integrated with the solution. The existing infrastructure should be compatible with DSCI. We need one project manager to define the timeline and manage the daily activities. We also need two project engineers.

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Adeel Hashmi

IT Technical Advisor at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

With an easy deployment phase, the tool offers good scalability and stability

Suppose you don't compare Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series with the newest features available in the other variants of the product, then everything is pretty standard, so I cannot pinpoint any areas of issue in particular. With Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series, the firmware from VMware or Nutanix takes time to be made available compared to other products that we use in our company's IT environment. If you want to go to a certain version of VMware and check what Nutanix offers, you see that both the offerings don't go hand in hand, and you have to wait for a quarter or two quarters until you see the same versions of both being made available for the other products, like Dell or HPE. 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. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in a solution. In future releases of the product, I may want some improvements to be made in the products from Nutanix and VMware.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."

"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."

"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."

"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."

"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."

"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""

"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."

"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."

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"We have the ability to increase the storage without any additional costs."

"The solution is useful for taking storage snapshots, has high performance, and the CASL architecture is good for optimizing workloads."

"The product has cut down a lot of service tickets. Earlier, people complained about slowness."

"HPE's InfoSight software, which does the comparative analysis and artificial intelligence built-in in the box, and with Nimble they do well against the competition. Additionally, the dashboards are good."

"The integration of AI tools for predictive analysis sets it apart from competitors."

"Nimble DHCI is really user friendly and not complex"

"Artificial intelligence is built into the product. If there's a failure, HP support will proactively call the client about the issue."

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI's user interface is very easy to work with."

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"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."

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's deployment phase is pretty easy."

Cons

"The GUI deserves a little love."

"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."

"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."

"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."

"Updates seem to be non-existent."

"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."

"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."

"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."

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"The performance of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI could improve. Other solutions, such as Cisco, are better."

"Their documentation needs to be simpler to read yet more detailed so it's easy to compare models and easier for clients to pick."

"Software upgrade is still more complicated than the competitors, so that's an area of improvement."

"The product's active controller feature needs improvement."

"This year 2022, we have the possibility to include new kinds of storage with a high disk availability, such as Alletra 6000 and Alletra 9000. Those are the new storage available. If we would like to improve the quality and the capability and the high availability of these products, we can choose between different costs. This is another benefit from this HPE Nimble Storage dHCI solution of hyper-converged."

"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."

"The only issue I'm really running into is we have a SQL server that we're having a lot of high IO latency on one of my drives and it's my data drive from my SQL server. It's not really giving me any good information as to where that latency is coming from, so that's what I'm trying to track down and troubleshoot."

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"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."

"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."

"Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series could improve by having better integration with the solutions from VMware and vCenter"

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are two tiers of support and in my opinion, support is worth the cost."

"This solution is very accessible and the pro-level for support is well worth the cost."

"I think the bang for the buck is much better with StarWind Virtual SAN."

"I would suggest that you download the free version, deploy in your lab, and play with it."

"The Price/Performance ratio for this solution is outstanding!"

"The license is reusable. We can always rebuild it and apply the license. Then, boom, we get new servers, apply the license, and we're back up and running."

"Licensing is based on nodes rather than TBs, which means that the users are free to increase storage capacity without putting thought into licensing."

"If you are looking at a traditional SAN for a small cluster, give StarWind vSAN because you will save thousands without any compromise."

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"The product licensing costs vary depending on whether VMware or other solutions are used."

"HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is much cheaper than the competition and has value proposition. Customers can see an ROI in three months. There are no additional costs, and VMware licenses can be reutilized."

"The price of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is expensive."

"I would rate the licensing model a three out of ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is cheap."

"The customers have found the solution to be expensive. However, when compared to the competition the price is reasonable."

"With the features that HPE Nimble Storage dHCI provides, I cannot say its pricing is more."

"I think it's priced right and it's extremely intelligent."

"The solution’s pricing was very good."

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"When comparing this solution to other OEM solutions it is relatively inexpensive."

"Price-wise, it is a pretty good product. The product's price was one of the main criteria that made my company choose it over the other products in the market."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

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What needs improvement with StarWind Virtual SAN?

While using StarWind Virtual SAN so far, I have not found anything missing. It is true that we are using it in a very...

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What do you like most about HPE Nimble Storage dHCI?

The solution is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE Nimble Storage dHCI?

It has competitive pricing.

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What needs improvement with HPE Nimble Storage dHCI?

The roadmap could be improved.

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What do you like most about Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series?

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's deployment phase is pretty easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series?

Price-wise, it is a pretty good product. The product's price was one of the main criteria that made my company choose...

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What needs improvement with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series?

Suppose you don't compare Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series with the newest features available in the other variants of the...

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Overview

StarWind Virtual SAN provides high availability and fault tolerance for virtualized environments without the need for dedicated SAN hardware. It allows for real-time replication between servers, shared storage for Hyper-V clusters, and enables vMotion and High Availability features for VMware vSphere. The solution reduces costs and leverages existing hardware while providing a scalable and reliable infrastructure. Valuable features include ease of use, scalability, top-tier support, hardware agnosticism, and the ability to use off-the-shelf standard servers to increase storage space. StarWind VSAN has helped organizations improve performance, data availability, and data security while reducing downtime and providing cost-saving storage options.

HPE Alletra dHCI, a data storage solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), offers Disaggregated Hyperconverged Infrastructure (dHCI), separating storage from compute resources for independent scaling and management. Utilizing HPE Nimble Storage technology, known for AI-driven optimization, it ensures high performance and management efficiency. With scalability and agility, users can effortlessly expand storage or processing power as data requirements evolve. Additionally, boasting rapid deployment in under 15 minutes and a claimed 99.9999% data availability, HPE Alletra dHCI promises robust and reliable storage solutions.

Designed for easy deployment and manageability in scale-out clusters, the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series combines Nutanix software with Lenovo’s highly reliable and scalable servers. These appliances ship fully integrated, tested, and configured so that you can dramatically accelerate your time to value and reduce your infrastructure maintenance.

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