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."When using new (warranty) servers, you can forget about the storage service for several years. The users will not even notice the failure of two servers out of three."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"It's quite easy to manage."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"PowerShell library is pretty good feature as I created with APC PowerChute a script to put volumes on maintenance mode then turning off the StarWind nodes together with the VM and Hosts when UPS reaches 15 percent, this way after a blackout or electrical problems when turning servers on again, there is no issues for syncing or data loss due to energy interrupts."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"Given the high availability of the server cluster, we were able to reduce separate physical servers onto one hyper-converged cluster - this saved in OPEX and CAPEX costs immediately, along with licensing costs of the Windows Server licenses."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"HPE SimpliVity is simple, it's very friendly."
"Among the valuable features are that it's a complete solution, it's easy to use, and there is not a lot of management time involved in operating the solution."
"It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good."
"The initial setup was very easy as I had the SimpliVity engineers work with our managed services."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"I would like to see more monitoring and alert tools."
"The Command Center, a free guest VM for management and monitoring, leaves something to be desired. It could have more accurate real-time information and better reporting visuals, which seem to be an afterthought."
"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."
"Proper training sessions should be included with the licensing."
"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."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved because if you need more storage then you have to add more nodes."
"The product is expensive."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Deployment could be simplified and more user friendly."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
"They should optimize the administration stack because it is consuming too much memory. It ends up consuming 20% of memory. They have another product for this feature, but I would like to have this feature within HPE SimpliVity."
"Bandwidth throttling during offsite backups would be better than the off-peak time setting for a 24/7 shop."
"The initial setup was complex. It took a few months to integrate and adapt to the new platform."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"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 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 Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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