We performed a comparison between HPE Hyper Converged 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 allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"Besides being 80% cheaper than the other alternatives, the simplicity makes reconfiguration and support much easier."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"We went from "no way DB applications would have good performance" to "Wow! We can now actually have a DB running and have some VMs running at the same time.""
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"The solution has good backup resolution updates."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution has many good features."
"The scalability of this tool is very good. You can basically add more storage and seamlessly expand the current storage that you have."
"The solution's most valuable features are scalability, easy migration, easy recovery, and flexible backup possibilities."
"Our storage and IT are now at an enterprise level with all the necessary controls and restrictions being enacted."
"I've found the data protection features the most valuable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are fast deployment, security, and it is easy to upgrade."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"It is difficult to control all of the hardware components."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"The software could benefit from more tooling to help with initial deployment."
"In my country, the biggest issue is probably pricing."
"The price can be improved. We would like to see support for some open source virtualization technology like for example KVM."
"The solution can be improved on the management side. More management features should be added to future releases."
"The solution's pricing for the hardware and support could be reduced."
"Scalability requires using additional nodes."
"A software-only version of the solution, without the hardware, would be nice."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"Installation and setup could be easier."
"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"
Earn 20 points
HPE Hyper Converged is ranked 11th in HCI with 34 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. HPE Hyper Converged is rated 8.2, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Hyper Converged writes " Ensures end-to-end data security with redundancy measures and provides visibility into the system but node expansion challenges". 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 Hyper Converged is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Dell PowerFlex and HPE Alletra dHCI, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
See our list of best HCI vendors.
We monitor all HCI reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
