We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."he interface and the installation makes it easy as it's all in one piece of hardware and it doesn't need to be connected to anything else."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is hardware independent."
"It appears to be very stable and very robust."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"Thin provisioning lets us get the most value from the hard drives."
"The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"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."
"Configuration of application integrated snapshots for VMware is convoluted and it did not work immediately."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"It would be nice if there were more parts available in Brazil and HPE could swap out faulty equipment quicker."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"The GUI is a bit old-fashioned. It should be updated."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"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."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". 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 StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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