We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and Springpath [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It is extremely stable."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"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."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"The product's core feature of virtualizing our storage is by far the most valuable."
"We are able to do maintenance by bringing down one node at a time, rather than having to schedule a complete shutdown."
"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."
"Integration with vCenter WebClient services and Cisco UCS Ecosystem, as it gives a Single Pane Of Management which lowers administration-cost (improving TCO)."
"While StarWind.com excels in numerous areas, there are a couple of notable functionalities that it currently lacks. One of these is duplication, which could be an invaluable feature for data redundancy and backup purposes. The ability to duplicate data across different storage locations can be crucial for safeguarding against data loss, and its absence is a minor limitation in an otherwise stellar offering."
"StarWind offers the Enterprise-level high availability (HA), deployed and easily configured .maintain and update and with little to no fuss, even the free version is incredibly capable whilst it brings a the cost of a Highly Available HCI solution down to a very cost effective point" Having used Starwind Virtual SAN for many years both for clients and for internal systems it has always done exactly what it set out to do, provide a cost effect way to run a HCI storage platform for almost any hypervisor, but it is most effective with Hyper-V, simple, easy to use, -.software monitoring should be web based to be reachable from any workstation in VLAN."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"There should be publicly available tutorials on YouTube or other platforms that help the users to integrate this solution with other platforms, for example."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"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."
"Stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue."
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Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI while Springpath [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while Springpath [EOL] is rated 4.0. 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 Springpath [EOL] writes "This product has a lot of room to improve: Competitors have a much larger feature-set, stability during installations/upgrades is a big issue.". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas Springpath [EOL] is most compared with .
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