We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"StarWind support has been great in helping resolve other issues not caused by their software."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"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."
"We ran into an issue with alerts."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"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."
"Maybe in the future, the replication will be supported in more cloud providers."
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
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Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. 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 SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Pivot3 vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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