We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Pivot3 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.
"I like StarWind's high availability. The failover is almost immediate, so the end users have no idea the guest VM moved at all. We can failover all guest VMs onto a single hypervisor, place it into maintenance mode, install updates, and reboot a hypervisor all during the daytime and remotely, with confidence the process will be successful."
"They offer top-tier support."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"Their support staff is comprised of true experts who can also communicate clearly."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. "
"SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"The simple management comes in handy since a standard VMware admin can manage it."
"The performance is good. It's stable and easy to operate."
"The compression and deduplication ratio."
"I like the expandability of the solution. We can effortlessly grow the storage and resources without downtime."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"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 would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"StarWind Virtual SAN could benefit from better integration with other tools and technologies, such as backup and disaster recovery solutions."
"Ongoing improvements in read and write performance would help meet increasingly demanding workloads."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"HPE support is still not aware/trained on SimpliVity, and this is beginning to show."
"The Omni Card consumes a lot of memory and CPU."
"We had one call with technical support which was not completely answered to our satisfaction. We did not receive the right answer."
"There needs to be a simple process for migrating one SimpliVity cluster to a new SimpliVity cluster."
"If there was anything I would like to see, it would be indexed backups."
"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."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
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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. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. Pivot3 report.
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