We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"One of the standout features of StarWind.com is its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with Dell systems. This integration provides users with an unmatched level of convenience and compatibility, allowing for streamlined operations within a Dell environment. This compatibility factor alone can save significant time and effort for IT professionals, ensuring a smooth integration process and optimized performance."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"The price was right."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"The technical support is exceptionally good."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"We really enjoy the virtualization that the solution offers."
"Backups happen very quickly."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"The ability to manage the environment without special consoles or interfaces is a plus."
"The setup is very easy."
"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."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"Pricing is a bit high."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"There is no IPv6 support. That is our only issue at this time."
"We would like to see the documentation more fully developed."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"HPE SimpliVity should cost less."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"The greatest disadvantage is the update process. Every patch or release update must be checked and deployed with the HPE solution, which sometimes is a little bit difficult. It is not difficult in terms of installation, but it is difficult to get the patches in time."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 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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