We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."Virtual SAN runs on iSCSI, which is free and easy to configure. It's easy to manage from StarWind's GUI console, and it only required a few extra switch ports."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"We have been able to use more on-prem hardware to reduce cost and also use old disks that we do not trust enough for ordinary RAID or usage."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The user interface for this application is amazing."
"The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"We like the backup feature, which is inbuilt."
"The solution is scalable and one of the best in the market."
"The most valuable feature for us is its integration, as it provides an entire solution in a single box."
"We can backup with more frequency and minimize RPO and RTO."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the backup rate and the backup transfer."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"It would be great if it provided thin provisioned virtual disks."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"Android app for monitoring and receiving push notifications as alarms or monitoring I/O from any mobile device could be a good feature and nice to have as we are not always on our desk."
"It took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"The local support in Argentina is not good. This is a new technology and HP doesn't have a lot of technology specialists here in Argentina. It's very hard to find the specialist here."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"The centric management could be simplified or more user-friendly."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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