We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"Being hardware agnostic is a must and definitely scored points for us."
"The most valuable feature is the managed service, which has been an important part of monitoring our critical infrastructure."
"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."
"The ability to run the software virtually on every virtualization platform and the ability to eliminate all storage vendor locking are the most valuable features."
"Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"It is the most valuable Software Defined Storage ever to manage all storage workloads, and also offers high availability."
"VxRail has high performance and has great efficiency. There is a single place for us to manage all of our virtual machines. The ability to right-size instead of overcommit VMs is a large benefit."
"Our clients value being able to upgrade with one click or a few clicks."
"The technical support is very helpful and answers questions whenever we have issues with the product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automation and integration points with other automation tools."
"It is truly a hyper-converged infrastructure, so everything is there together."
"There is a single vendor with the hardware, software, and maintenance. Thus, there is a single vendor with whom we can contact."
"VxRail alleviates the operational constraints within an organization."
"Having more support plan options would be nice."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"It would be nice to add the ability to use raw partitions instead of file containers."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"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 software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"VxRail should try to improve the pricing."
"The most important thing that I want to be included in this solution is the VMware license. Its deployment time can be quicker so that instead of 40 minutes, it takes 10 minutes."
"They're getting better with their one-click upgrade. The success factor is now between 85% to 87% with the latest release. They should just continuously improve on that one-click factor and make it more seamless."
"Lacks integration of licenses so that it's an expensive solution."
"When using hybrid nodes, such as VxRail, there should not be compression and deduplication, only in All-Flash nodes."
"We do not use the storage part of VxRail, we use Pure Storage to map out the VxRail because the disk performance from Pure Storage was far better than the performance of the disk on the inside of VxRail."
"The price could be better. The backup mechanism could also be better. Some of our clients prefer to work with backup software from a different vendor. They don't do a built-in backup solution. It would be better if they had guidelines on proper sizing and the whole life cycle from the requirement collection. If there aren't any proper guidelines, how do I go to the customer and evaluate their existing infrastructure? How can you do appropriate sizing to migrate to a hyper-converged environment? I think this is a requirement because most of our clients are migrating to a hyper-converged environment. In the next release, they can improve absolutely anything you can think of to improve the product in general—for example, the clusters and backup software."
"This solution needs to have the capability where even older versions of hardware can be seamlessly utilized and additional expansion becomes so much easier."
Earn 20 points
Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 115 reviews. Pivot3 is rated 8.6, while VxRail is rated 8.6. 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 VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series.
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