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."The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"It is extremely stable."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"The ease of managing this system."
"It comes all in one box."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"It's very simple to manage. It has reduced the footprint in the datacenters quite a lot."
"I like SimpliVity because it can be adapted for small clients or the biggest ones. It's flexible."
"It has reduced my data center activities."
"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."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"I struggled when bit figuring out how to go about doing the evaluation."
"The GUI deserves a little love."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"This is a great product."
"It would be helpful if StarWind provided more precise and detailed documentation explaining how to configure the solution in various scenarios, including the advantages and disadvantages of each."
"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 took a bit of knowledge and support to put in place but once installed it works fine. Migration (HyperV) from one server to another sometimes takes longer than expected but there is no data loss even if the host crashes."
"There is room for improvement in the operations area because the support for that server space is minimal."
"I would like to see it able to restore item levels, especially for databases."
"The price is quite high. The system could also be more scalable."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"When it comes to performing backups, the dashboard is not intuitive and not user-friendly."
"A lot of our customers are using VMware and also are using Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not very stable on the HP SimpliVity."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"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."
"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 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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