We performed a comparison between Dell PowerFlex and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"The install itself is easy as pie."
"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."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"I've had to open a few support cases over the years due to administrator errors, and the support received was top-notch."
"Ten gigabit Ethernet compatibility, support, ease of use, and management are some positive features."
"The support team responds quickly."
"The catalog of APIs for automation has been most valuable, although they are quite limited."
"Dell PowerFlex is a one-stop-shop solution. Storage, compute, network, application monitoring, and support cases are all combined into one solution. It's very easy to administer compared to when you have a reference architecture where you need to design and build everything yourself. You would also then have to work with multiple vendors."
"The support is highly responsive."
"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."
"The solution is scalable."
"We've had no issues with scaling the solution."
"The most valuable feature is high availability."
"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."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"While we had little to no issues in setting up StarWind and received excellent support from the StarWind technicians, we would have appreciated a clearer guideline for a setup with the free version of StarWind Management Console or, in other words - for the setup with the PowerShell."
"If there was one thing we could request, it would be the ability to shrink volumes. For example, we want to be able to decrease in the size of the volume."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"I wish they would improve the documentation for the beginner level as it's not very clear on the web page."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"There should be more functionality available for routing."
"We've had some issues around the licensing."
"The storage capability must be improved."
"I am not really impressed by the technical support of this solution."
"Licensing restrictions can be frustrating."
"It would be great to get earlier access to beta builds because we have to develop providers on our own. The APIs and enablers for custom automation could also be improved."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"Needs some more monitoring tools."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
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Dell PowerFlex is ranked 10th in HCI with 19 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. Dell PowerFlex is rated 8.2, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerFlex writes "Infrastructure management solution that offers rapid provisioning of computer storage but the APIs and enablers for custom automation could be improved". 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". Dell PowerFlex is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE SimpliVity and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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