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."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 most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"Having the ability to scale horizontally if needed is a huge plus for future growth."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"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."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
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Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 183 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 and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Pivot3 vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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