We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and StarWind Virtual Tape Library based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The ability to keep data accessible even in the event of hardware failures is highly valued, as it ensures business continuity."
"You can turn your local disk storage into high-availability iSCSI storage."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a highly flexible solution, as it can be deployed on physical servers or on top of virtual machines running on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The primary purpose of this software is to create a virtual SAN between local storage on Hyper-V hosts. I find this feature most valuable since it accomplishes this quite well."
"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."
"I like the fact that we can simultaneously upload the virtual tapes to different cloud providers, and the settings can be adjusted to speed up the upload times even further."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution made our backups way more reliable."
"The most valuable feature of the StarWind Virtual Tape Library is the archiving to the AWS cloud."
"StarWind VTL allowed us to back up to virtual tape that was created within Veeam and upload the tape to the cloud."
"If it's possible to make a driver/solution that does not make use of the iSCSI targets of Windows, that would be great. I don't know if that's possible, however, it could make the configuration a little easier."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"They require more media visibility."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"StarWind doesn't really have any performance reporting, especially compared with other vSAN products we've used."
"We would like the documentation to be more complete. Most items are covered, but if you don't know something, you may need to contact their support."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"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."
"I am not sure if this is a limitation of my physical hardware or if it is the software itself. However, I would like the throughput to be faster."
"The solution's training process and online documentation could be more thorough."
"The main thing that I felt could be improved was having an estimated time of completion for the virtual tape uploads to the cloud."
"The initial installation can be complex and should be simplified."
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Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is ranked 15th in HCI with 6 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual Tape Library is rated 10.0. 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 StarWind Virtual Tape Library writes "Flexible and reliable with helpful support". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas StarWind Virtual Tape Library is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, HPE StoreVirtual and VMware vSAN.
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