We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Pivot3 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."We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"The ease of reaching the support team and their promptness for support is great."
"The product only requires two VMWare ESXi host servers versus three host servers for VMware's comparable solution."
"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."
"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 Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"This solution has a very good user interface, with simple administration/management."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"My impression is that it is a very nice solution. Very simple to use."
"Has good performance and ease of use"
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The documentation is good. However, if compared with competitors, it could be enhanced and made more professional."
"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."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"Once I am onto the SimpliVity environment, I always have to go with HP because I am somewhat blocked, like Apple. Secondly, if I want to increase only storage, I need to buy an entire computing node for that, an entire HCI node."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"We have had some failures out-of-the-box. We have had some failures with the OmniStack module. One thing that we didn't fully understand was how much of the internal memory was used up by the OmniStack piece, which basically makes up SimpliVity."
"It would be better if it could integrate more easily with other vendors."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"Integration with external solutions outside the HPE posed challenges."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"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 Scale Computing HC3, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Pivot3 report.
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