We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"The ability for us to manage all of our nodes from the same console makes systems administration very easy."
"The solution is also quite flexible. As an example, other vSAN solutions that we looked at had more stringent requirements regarding mixed HDD/SSD storage which wouldn't have worked in our environment."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"Updates to server hardware are now painless and done during working hours with zero stress. We had a RAID failure a few months back, and nobody in the building even noticed and there was no after hours time used for repair."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"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."
"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."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"If there are domain controllers inside the cluster, there needs to be some sort of logic allowing them to boot independently so all the rest of the domain clients can gain the authority they need to come online."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"There is one issue as far as licensing goes and that is a lack of documentation online for users when transitioning from the free version to the paid version, or vice versa."
"Besides not being able to use any filesystem, I do not have any additional cons."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
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Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 183 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Pivot3 vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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