Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series vs Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series comparison

Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series are both solutions in the HCI category. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.0, while Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.0. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series holds a 0.7% mindshare in HCI, compared to Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series and Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series are competing in the hyper-converged infrastructure environment category. Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series appears to have the upper hand due to its superior features and performance flexibility.

Features: ThinkAgile VX Series integrates well with VMware environments, offering scalability, reliability, and advanced management tools. ThinkAgile HX Series is flexible across multiple environments, supported by the Nutanix hyper-convergence platform, robust analytics, and automation features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ThinkAgile HX Series provides flexible deployment with strong customer support, along with pre-configured nodes and intuitive management. ThinkAgile VX Series offers tailored deployment for VMware environments, though with less universal flexibility. Both provide commendable customer service, with HX Series having broader support experiences.

Pricing and ROI: ThinkAgile VX Series allows competitive setup costs and favorable ROI for VMware, with predictable pricing and managed services. ThinkAgile HX Series may have higher initial costs but offers strong ROI with extensive features and adaptability.

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the HCI category, the mindshare of StarWind Virtual SAN is 2.3%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series is 1.5%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ahmed Hosni

Senior System Engineer at Giza Systems

Feb 24, 2024

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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Adeel Hashmi

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

Nov 27, 2023

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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Genesis Dapoza

Email Administrator at Technopaq, Inc.

Mar 1, 2024

simplifies management for clients familiar with VMware, and offers a user-friendly management and configuration experience

With the VX machines, the clients often confuse the hardware itself with the services and resources. VMs are configured according to resources - memory, hard disk capacity, and network. These resources, including memory and processor, are actually shared on the VX Series. So, if the server's processor is underpowered or unreliable for the VMs, many of the VMs will encounter issues. Ideally, the physical server configuration should align more closely with the needs of the virtual servers. The drawback is that the hardware resources (CPU, memory, storage) are shared among all the VMs running on the VX Series. If the server's processor is underpowered for the VMs, many of the VMs might have performance issues. An improvement could be to have more granular control over resource allocation to VMs.

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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

"It's quite easy to manage."

"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."

"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."

"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."

"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."

"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."

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

"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."

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

"The initial setup is simple. We were able to deliver the hyper-convergence solution in a very good time."

"The most valuable features of the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series are the ease of use and simple configuration."

"We find the setup quite straightforward and very easy."

"The VX machines are scalable."

"The clients like the solution’s simplicity."

"Installation is straightforward because it's a vSAN. It only took one or two days."

"Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series' deployment is easy. We are a tier-one platinum partner who is into multiple implementations."

Cons

"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."

"This is a great product."

"In all areas the product could be made faster."

"The system performs as expected, but we're always looking for performance improvements regarding the best utilization of NVMe disks."

"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."

"I would like to see some additional, and possibly clearer, implementation videos with some slower and possibly more detailed descriptions of what the various steps of implementation are for someone who is unfamiliar with high availability and failover clustering in Windows."

"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."

"The GUI deserves a little love."

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

"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 VX Series needs to improve its stability. Its resolution should be faster."

"With the VX machines, the clients often confuse the hardware itself with the services and resources. VMs are configured according to resources - memory, hard disk capacity, and network. These resources, including memory and processor, are actually shared on the VX Series. So, if the server's processor is underpowered or unreliable for the VMs, many of the VMs will encounter issues. Ideally, the physical server configuration should align more closely with the needs of the virtual servers."

"The user management could be a bit better. It's something they could improve upon in future releases."

"The product must provide AI features."

"Support could be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"This solution has competitive prices and the implementation is very easy."

"This solution has a great price for the functionality."

"We evaluated other options and this one was the most cost-effective."

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

"We found that the pricing was perfect; simple and clear."

"StarWind is a low-cost, full-featured alternative to the traditional SAN environment, and their support will guide you every step of the setup."

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"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."

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

"The tool's pricing is competitive."

"There is room for improvement in the licensing structure, maybe. Regarding sizing the resources, sometimes it's difficult to calculate/compute them based on the client's requirements."

"You need to pay a license for additional features. If we need to monitor hardware for the automatic alert notification, we need to pay them."

"The tool is expensive."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about StarWind Virtual SAN?

It is easy to use and can monitor system synchronization and check Storage status. StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) combin...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StarWind Virtual SAN?

If you are comfortable with the solution and you feel that you don't need support, you can begin with the free licenc...

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What needs improvement with StarWind Virtual SAN?

Areas for improvement in StarWind Virtual SAN include simplifying the setup process, especially for users with limite...

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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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What do you like most about Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series?

The VX machines are scalable.

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

The licensing model is moderately complex. The tool is expensive. It is VMware’s fault, though.

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What needs improvement with Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series?

The product must provide AI features. It depends on VMware since the core is software. The solution must provide a mo...

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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.

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.

Differentiating yourself from the competition is vital in today’s fast-moving business environment. To support your business, IT systems must be simple, agile, and cost-effective so you can meet your customers’ requirements to be ever online. Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series enables you to meet these requirements by focusing on the business outcome you require, rather than on building your infrastructure.

ThinkAgile VX Series, powered by VMware vSAN, is available in several models. Each is preconfigured, pretested, and optimized to provide the simplest way to bring a new VMware hyperconverged environment online. If you have an existing VMware environment, the VX Series can integrate into it easily.

Designed for any size business from SMBs through large enterprises, VX Series can be used as infrastructure for remote office/branch office (ROBO) and retail stores as well as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and enterprise applications.

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Baker Tilly BVI, CMS Internet, Board Harpeth Hall School

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