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."The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the backup recovery."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"Its deduplication and backup functions are reliable."
"The HyperGuarantee is unique and the accelerator card is the primary IP with the product."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"It has instantaneous backup and lag-free restore. When everything is running, I can bring back a huge VM in less than 30 seconds. That's even better than Veeam."
"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."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"They need to improve the speed of the interfaces, thus allowing for better traffic on the network."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"The only way I can see this product needing improvement is the consultation level of the StarWind sales and engineers."
"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."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"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 initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"When we make some upgrades to the platform, it does take time to stabilize the structure again."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"To install or to update it is more complicated than other solutions."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"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."
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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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