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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"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."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"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."
"The fact that we can expand our storage and add on to our compute nodes easily and how amazing the StarWind technical support team is really adding value to our purchase."
"It's quite easy to install."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"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."
"The features of vSAN allow us to reduce our operational complexity to a large degree."
"It's completely hyper-converged, so it's very convenient."
"Adding new nodes and expanding vSAN forward is simple and non-disruptive for a lot of our customers."
"By eliminating dependency on that back-end storage, we now depend on everything that's in the VMkernel with vSAN. We eliminate the middleman."
"The most valuable thing about vSAN is that all of its features have been working well for us for the past two years. We haven't had an issue with them."
"Its ease of use is most valuable. It is easy to configure, and there is a unified interface, which makes things slightly easier."
"VMware comes with different stacks like VMware Cloud Foundation, which is integrated with different VMware modules. There's interoperability between VMware products."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSAN are that it receives updates frequently, has good compression, optimized storage, and they provide webinars on what is new. Additionally, the integration with third-party products is good and it is easy to manage."
"Currently, the StarWind management console is a bit clunky to navigate and isn't the most user-intuitive interface."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"We just need more integration with Veeam."
"Other vendors such as VMware vSAN have a bigger community of users, so it is easier to find more pre-sale or post-sale information from users."
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"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."
"Troubleshooting tools could be improved."
"If one node out of your ten nodes fails, it takes a lot of time to replicate and rebalance VMware vSAN. This time can be reduced. When a node fails and the data is not accessible, vSAN has to be rebalanced to make the redundancy level of two again. However, if it is taking a lot of time and any other hardware fails during that time, then we have a problem. Two disk failures mean that all data will be lost, and we may have to recover it from the backup. So, the number of threads that run to do the rebalancing could be more so that the time taken to make it fully redundant again is not so much."
"I would like to be able to limit IOPS."
"One of the things that we've had challenges with are when we place hosts into maintenance mode. Sometimes doing so triggers large re-sync processes which can be time-consuming and which have, at times, pushed the capacity to the threshold. I definitely think making some changes in that area would provide some big improvements."
"In a future release, they could add micro-segmentation or security level features integrated into vSAN."
"Hardware load balancing is available on the enterprise version of the solution, however, it's extremely expensive and therefore out of our budget."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
"I would love to see vSAN integrate Persistent Memory and NVDIMMs. I know they're supposed to be working on an elastic tier so that we don't have the issues with destaging from the cache to the capacity. Those are the things that I'm interested in."
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Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 219 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Pivot3 is most compared with VxRail, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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