We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and StarWind Virtual SAN 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 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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere is a software-defined storage solution that has reduced administration time for storage. It's pretty straightforward to install and setup it and so far it has been robust and worked as advertised from StarWind."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"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 see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"There is no Italian-language version of the software available."
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Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Pivot3 vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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