We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and StarWind Storage Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"With an uptime of 384 days, StarWind has improved overall server reliability."
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"The best part is the easy way it operates with a very clear GUI without any unnecessary items."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"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 integration is excellent."
"I would say data protection and easy management are the most valuable features of the product...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."
"We saw an ROI. We have saved both time and money by using it."
"They call us when monitoring shows a possible issue and are very flexible in working with our schedule to troubleshoot when it is convenient for us."
"The management interface is the most valuable feature for us."
"Having instant failover redundancy helps me sleep easier at night."
"Another good feature is that you can pause the appliance if you want to move it from one location to another and then once it's moved you can resume it, this way you can physically move the whole cluster or storage without any downtime. Its really easy to use, if you have a good foundation in storage and clustering then you will need less then one hour to figure out how to operate it."
"Its user-friendly interface makes it an attractive option, especially for customers who may not be highly tech-savvy."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"Ability to to test the virtual storage are network area and storage speed from StarWind Management Console."
"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."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"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."
"With StarWind Storage Appliance, it would be better to have an overall easier setup with a little bit of configuration changes since, currently, even a small mistake may cause the setup process to go wrong."
"The dashboard features are not in the free version."
"Other solutions, such as StorMagic, offer more flexibility in terms of handling caching and moving data between additional nodes."
"They could improve by providing integration with HP."
"StarWind no longer sells HDDs for primary storage."
"It needs more integration with backup vendors so there is native integration with it that will allow storage level backup/snapshots. I would love to see integration with Veeam and Commvault so it can be recognized by them directly and added as network storage."
"An improvement would be if they reached out to education customers with other available products."
"They offered onsite installation, but we chose to do it ourselves. That took longer and was more work for us but saved us a ton of money in the end."
Earn 20 points
Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI while StarWind Storage Appliance is ranked 10th in NAS with 9 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while StarWind Storage Appliance is rated 9.2. 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 Storage Appliance writes "Offers stable performance even with a single node failure and manages everything with just two nodes". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas StarWind Storage Appliance is most compared with FreeNAS, StorMagic SvSAN, StoneFly VSO NAS, VMware vSAN and DataCore SANsymphony.
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