We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and Springpath [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"It has allowed me to effectively and confidently manage the maintenance of hosts where I can power off a host and have its VMs migrate to another one."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"Initially, when we first started, the sync was horrible."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"Server-side snapshots are one thing the Linux appliance can't do yet."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"Feature-wise we are only waiting for the release of a "planned disaster" feature that would allow us to patch a hypervisor node without having to take the full storage offline."
"For the StarWind VSA vSphere solution, I would like to see a simpler and automated virtual machine installation process in terms of network settings."
"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."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. 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 Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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