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."StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"A typical system administrator with minimal experience in Hyper-V, VMware, or Windows can do VSAN configuration and maintain VSAN operations."
"The configuration is so much simpler than that of a traditional SAN with fewer points of failure to worry about."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"Starwind made it easy to deploy fully redundant, highly available storage at a low cost."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"A great feature is that I basically set it and forget it, as everything is automatic."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"HPE SimpliVity is scalable. Some 200 people at my organization are using this solution at present."
"The globally federated architecture means that the backup across sites does not consume precious MPLS bandwidth, which is cool."
"The accelerator card is a lifesaver for speeding up backups."
"The whole backup capability, where we are able to create backups and restore backups in typically 40 to 50 seconds, has been great."
"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."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"While it has been a while since HPE acquired SimpliVity, there is a lack of understanding/awareness about the product. In short, it took me time to actually make them understand they had a product named SimpliVity, which as you can imagine does not instill a great deal of confidence."
"The product is expensive."
"I would like them to add more connection capability, a hub and spoke model, to improve the number of connections that it can handle."
"I would like to see it be a truly hybrid-cloud solution where I could take my on-prem SimpliVity environment and have replication to a cloud install."
"SimpliVity has this thing where if a virtual machine is on the wrong node with two nodes, it will be optimized. However, if one of the nodes won't be optimized, then it will complain about that. It will give you a little warning to say the source is not optimized. Please move this to one of the other hosts. They should just add a little thing in SimpliVity to move all the VMs to the right host, because it is a pain to load balance across the three nodes when all these VMs are complaining and you have to move them to one."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"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."
"One thing that I would like to see improved is the flexibility of the node expansion."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"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 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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