We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and Vblock [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."It also provides a seamless and efficient solution for personal storage requirements, showcasing the versatility and scalability of my Virtual SAN configuration."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"Using our own choice of HW allowed us to price our service to answer our customers' needs."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"It enables us to provide more solution options for our clients, with the reassurance that, when implemented, they will be efficient and stable."
"Before VSAN, hypervisor configuration changes and updates resulted in VM outages. Now, downtime is dramatically reduced."
"It's very easy to resize disks and they show up in VMware almost instantly."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"Access to VMs is now faster due to the centralized management console."
"Capability for scale and growth within a single rack brings strong possibilities for capacity planning."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"The XtremIO All-Flash array delivers performance, reliability, and deduplication."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"The most valuable feature is that it is centrally managed, as it is quite easy for our customers to manage everything, end-to-end."
"Finding a fully bundled, deployed, and configured solution with a short delivery time and unique support is really attractive."
"In the next release, they could make some graphs of the real-time loading, speed of storage, and interfaces. Of course, these can be viewed in other places. But, in the event of a malfunction or troubleshooting, this would be convenient."
"It would be nice to see a new UI for the windows client, as it is not the easiest to find settings."
"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."
"The documentation could be better."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"StarWind currently has a Windows native application that it uses for management. There is not a web-based GUI at this time."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"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."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"Tighter alignment could simplify and speed up the configuration and delivery process."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"In the next release, I would like to see a smaller footprint in the data center and have improvements to disk performance."
"I would like to see them improve their switching infrastructure and rely on Cisco configurations. They are a bit more complex and technical, but result in a slightly reduced cost in terms of switching on the network side of it."
"RCM upgrades are painful."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
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Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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