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 StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"It has reduced our overall maintenance and overhead by having to only maintain physical boxes for one cluster instead of having to manage physical boxes for two clusters."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The ability to choose our own hardware and our own vendors for this was hugely beneficial, as we had pre-existing relationships with vendors we wanted to maintain."
"Recovery and maintenance are now less stressful and most importantly, it allows our users to keep working."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"It's much more simple than Nutanix and other hyper-converged solutions, at least from our point of view."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"Its ease of use is valuable. It is being used in a mining company. They wanted their working nodes to be seamless, and they wanted ease of use. That's why they opted for SimpliVity. They are running VMware virtual machines on it."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"This is a great product."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"There may be issues around scaling."
"It crashes often. When one particular VM has random, large IOPS requests, it will bog down the node, and there isn't enough time for the replica to be brought up. So all the VMs on that one particular node will essentially become offline."
"They can bring more awareness about this product. In this part of the world or this region, people normally don't know about SimpliVity and its capabilities. The company we have it sold to hasn't been able to fully utilize all the features or understand the features. So, product awareness should be improved."
"I wish to see an improved compute node selection, to allow us to select something other than merely the two socket system."
"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."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"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"
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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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