We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"User friendly interface and straight forward implementation."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The main benefit is that StarWind is almost maintenance-free."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"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."
"We didn't only choose vSAN; we chose VMware because of SR-IOV, which is more on the hypervisor level and not on the vSAN storage. It's part of the whole system."
"Flexibility, growth, and expansion are probably the more important features for us. As our environment grows, the more users come on, the more VDI workstations that we need, we can easily expand either horizontally or vertically with the environment"
"The most valuable feature for our customers is vMotion. It allows them to shut down virtual machines and migrate them to others servers."
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"IOPS is comparatively best to run VDI solution."
"By eliminating dependency on that back-end storage, we now depend on everything that's in the VMkernel with vSAN. We eliminate the middleman."
"The migration of servers feature makes server rack maintenance easy."
"The scalability has been quite good."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The logs can also become very noisy when there is an issue, which is very infrequent."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"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."
"The product's complex setup phase is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like to see more comprehensive lifecycle management. The current path and process for upgrading or updating the firmware, as well as the storage controller software to interact with that firmware, is fairly manual and not very well documented. A little more time and effort spent on the documentation of the lifecycle management for vSan would be really great."
"The integration could be improved. I would like to see integration with other platforms."
"The pricing model is sometimes a challenge for us because their licenses are very costly."
"One of the things that we've had challenges with are when we place hosts into maintenance mode. Sometimes doing so triggers large re-sync processes which can be time-consuming and which have, at times, pushed the capacity to the threshold. I definitely think making some changes in that area would provide some big improvements."
"vSAN does not have online dedup. When opening the inline dedupe, the performance will be lower than off inline."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
"Disaster recovery needs to be improved, when there is a crisis, there is a problem with what is the quickest way to get out of it."
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Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Pivot3 is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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