We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind vSAN has allowed us to grow rapidly while still providing flexibility and reliability."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN management console is intuitive and easy to use."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"We are running Hyper-V on twin servers in failover, and being able to manage servers from anywhere I need to, virtually, has been a game changer."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"Sangfor is user-friendly and simple to upgrade."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"The initial setup isn't hard."
"I find the simplicity of Sangfor very valuable. It is easy to configure and user-friendly. The overall user experience as well as the usability of Sangfor is outstanding."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten... Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution provides a single management console."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"You can get almost all the features of the tool at a low cost. The tool also has built-in backup mechanisms. It also has a physical firewall for internet management which other competitors lack."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"The setup and documentation for the installation with the free version could definitely be improved."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"Management tools could be improved, sometimes the usage seems to be slowed down and confusing. A native web interface could also be an option. I love to see in the future port of the software on a general Linux distribution like RedHat or Ubuntu in order to avoid windows license costs. I would also like to see features like erasure coding implemented. On the VSAN software, I would like to see some improvements in the storage pools (eliminate the usage of the file as a data container and use the raw partition)."
"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."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"Sangfor HCI could be improved with certification and the right ecosystem for ISVs like Oracle and SAP."
"Lacks network support."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"It can have more compatibility and new features. I would also like to see better performance. Some of the other HCI solutions already provide the SSD and flash storage and much higher Intel processors. Sangfor HCI can improve on that."
"One question that has come up frequently in the last week is whether or not the renewal cost for Sangfor's HCI solution is too high."
"There is a feature to upgrade multiple VMs simultaneously, but it crashes."
"The migration process could be easier."
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Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 9th in HCI with 28 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0. 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 Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and StorMagic SvSAN.
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