We performed a comparison between NetApp HCI [EOL] and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind allows us to move virtual machines from one physical host to another, which greatly reduces the downtime required for maintenance."
"StarWind is very easy to use, even if you have had no experience using a SAN before."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"StarWind vSAN was very easy to integrate into our system and ran flawlessly during our entire use time."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"This is a strong product and it works very well, and the processes around it continue to grow and mature."
"Scalability was another thing I was looking at. The solution, by its very nature, is designed to be expandable and flexible, so you don't have to buy performance you don't need today, but you're also not stuck with something you can't expand."
"It has reduced our hypervisor footprint by around 20%."
"It is a unique product with simplified setup and independent control over storage and compute."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the SolidFire interface."
"It allows me to move a VM set and require extra performance. I can easily move them onto it and have it just run."
"In terms of helping us with storage persistence across private and hybrid clouds, we do store data internally and in Azure. It has allowed us to consolidate a number of workloads, across our old NetApp and a number of our older storage arrays, into a single unit and have that unit also working with Azure."
"HCI definitely improved how flexible we scale, and our entrance into the cloud. The features are very rich, in terms of both avenues. It's helped us flexibly move and shift our workloads around, back and forth."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"Geolocation could be better, for example, for site mirroring for DR purposes."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"I would like to see an extensive set of cmdlets that could allow for easier automation as well as status management."
"It would help if the manufacturer provided clearer and more detailed documentation, with explanations of how the application can be installed in various HA configurations."
"This is a great product."
"The system failovers properly on its own without too much worry."
"Being able to run StarWind vSAN on top of any free UNIX operating system to build a resilient iSCSI/FTP/SMB storage system would be useful."
"It is difficult to get acclimated to all the new features quickly. The onboard process could be improved to bring clients up to speed faster."
"The price should be lowered. It's a little expensive."
"I'd like to see some additional graphics capabilities because I'd like to look at some virtual desktop integration for CAD software."
"There have been some drive type of issues where we have to apply a new code level. Storage nodes kick certain drives until they act as though they have failed when really they haven't. You just have to reinsert them, then they go on about their happy way. It's sort of a bug."
"I would like to see a better upgrade process, like the one that ONTAP has."
"To improve the product, they should make it more flexible."
"The problem is that it needs to be much more stable, for example, when I want to do the upgrade to 1.7 that just released, I also need to issue a ticket to the support guy in India and he asked me to deploy another mlock. There are a lot of manual steps compared with other products."
"In the next version I would like to see bigger GPU types and insurance for including transparency."
"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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NetApp HCI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI with 32 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. NetApp HCI [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp HCI [EOL] writes "Ease of provisioning has allowed us to implement large installations in a very short time frame". 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". NetApp HCI [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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