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."Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"The most valuable feature is the reliable storage replication, which enables me to create a robust infrastructure to run our business."
"The price was right."
"StarWind vSAN is a great solution to create a redundant two-node-only Hyper-V cluster, both for domain or workgroup scenarios."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"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 features are replication and backup."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"HPE SimpliVity is a very valuable and effective solution. It's also a scalable solution. As the customer requirements and application requirements increase, it can scale to accommodate them."
"Its performance and availability are most valuable."
"The scalability is its most valuable feature. It's also able to do stretch clustering."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"It would be nice if we could designate pools, or tiers, for storage of different speeds, and then assign rules to new VMs that would automatically place them into the proper pool."
"While it is possible to implement disk encryption in StarWind using Windows Bitlocker, such a solution can be a little tricky to manage."
"Our company was hoping for deduplication and encryption across HCI. That is currently not supported."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"Security on the ISCSI protocol could be improved by adding features like OS-type control access, especially for the data center environment."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"They recommend RAID10 for HDD, which reduces the usable storage capacity."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"The fact that it is tied to a certain hardware platform would probably be the bigger negative versus just being able to buy something off the shelf."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"I would love to see a more proactive approach to implementing patches and reaching out to customers with new initiatives."
"The way that it handles the memory could be better."
"It is not as flexible as we want. We have asked for some more granular scalability. For example, the ability to add some disks, and not another node, if we need more storage."
"Bottleneck is the main issue."
"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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