We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The top-notch support before, during, and after deployments are better than any other vendor I have come across."
"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."
"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.""
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The management was very easy and I was able to find all that I need in the software dashboard."
"Immediately we noticed huge performance gains, even on older hardware and once we implemented a 10GB link between both servers, the sync was near-instant after the initial sync was complete."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support. They are excellent and you can learn a lot from the support team."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"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."
"With StarWind's Proactive monitoring we can go about our day helping our customers and not have to worry about our cluster's health."
"High-availability is what I bought it for."
"In our experience with StarWind, the support has been by far the most valuable feature."
"It did not hurt that the price for the hardware and three years of support cost less than the disparate hardware the cluster used to run on."
"The easy way everything can be configured and ready to run in less than a day is great."
"This solution came preconfigured. All we needed to do was plug it in and move our VMs."
"We opted for 24-hour monitoring and support, which has already paid for itself."
"The hardware footprint is perfect. It fits in our rack perfectly, and we were able to condense a lot of physical servers we had. It has greatly eliminated the excess stuff in our server rack..."
"I'd love to see more clarification for us folks who are smart enough to do some damage yet not smart enough to use CLI."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"I would like additional documentation regarding possible networking configurations with 10GbE switching."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"I found that certain browsers are not fully compatible with the administration web access portal."
"The StarWind Management Console is available only for Microsoft Windows/Windows Server, and should also be available for Linux and macOS, as it would reduce implementation costs."
"StarWind relies on the underlying OS to manage the "SAN files" whether that would be a RAID volume, software RAID (such as LVM), etc. It would be useful if StarWind could incorporate the actual physical drive management inside of the solution, similar to Storage Spaces Direct."
"In all areas the product could be made faster."
"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"
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"We need to be very cautious in following every step when updating the physical host. We must move over each VM and drain roles from the servers to ensure everything goes smoothly without interruptions. If this were a more automated process, this would be less taxing each time an upgrade is needed."
"I think that the pre-installation questionnaire was a little confusing and ambiguous."
"Maybe they could have a support portal that you can have direct access to a current support representative."
"What would have to be done urgently is the adaptation of the hardware to the configuration."
"The only thing I have run into is that I did want to add more hard drives into the host, so that we could look at doing a RAID 10, and the hard drive prices were pretty expensive... that's pretty nit-picky and I don't think it has anything to do with StarWind itself. I think it's more on whomever they work with for their hardware."
"At times there has been a language barrier when communicating issues."
"A desired feature or service is the ability to have a hardware subscription plan that ensures routine hardware updates in conjunction with the hyper-converged software."
"I wish I understood what goes into the StarWind software a little bit better. To me, it's kind of magic the way some of it works. As an IT professional, you don't really want things to be magic. I do wish there was a little more "Here's how it works." There could be more documentation given to administrators..."
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Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 6th in HCI with 65 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6. 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 StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN.
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