We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"Active-active HA provides top performance and redundancy."
"The product gave us a cost-effective way to deploy a highly available server environment."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to."
"Offsite backup, replication, and duplication of data are important for our plant environment since we are hard on our equipment."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the storage virtualization layer, together with the built-in backups."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"The solution has eliminated the need for overprovisioning. It is designed to take advantage of deduplication strategies, which means we don't have to have as much disk in the system to do the job that we used to have to do."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"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 reconnection of the attached drives upon a reboot could be improved."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"The documentation could be a little more concise, but, for the most part, it just works."
"The documentation could be better."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"The backup and recovery process needs to be faster. Right now, it's a bit slow."
"While SimpliVity was a pioneer of cloud connect capability, they have simply not exploited it."
"I think that they should have their own hyper-converged system."
"There is room for improvement in that there is a need for so many Federation nodes. It would help if they increased that capacity so that we didn't have to have so much hardware in our secondary site."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"There are a lot of different components to choose from in the chassis. This could be easier by providing a standard or a base model to create and configure from."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 150 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.
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