We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."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."
"Without the need for any downtime, enterprises can simply grow their storage infrastructure using StarWind Virtual SAN by adding new servers or disks to the current infrastructure."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"StarWind vSAN has a lot of great features and is a perfect solution for mirroring internal disks and flash between servers."
"The StarWind VSAN is always up and allows us to move VMS to other nodes for maintenance, without interruption to service."
"Integration with virtualization platforms helped us to resolve many issues we were facing while using the physical storage."
"The management interface on the software is very simple. It is insanely simple compared to most SANs. The interface is also powerful when used to complete tasks that an IT administrator needs to complete."
"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 a nice, simple control panel. You can clearly see the state and health of storage along with the synchronization."
"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."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"A central management console may be nice to see all nodes."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"I would like to see options for automated notifications of any changes, including, for example, synchronization issues."
"I'd prefer it if a remote console was provided."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"The console is something that I believe could be enhanced."
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Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN 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 Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StorMagic SvSAN and DataCore SANsymphony.
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