We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."The most important feature is the ability to experience the loss of one node or one storage device, and not lose the entire cluster."
"It has reduced the amount of switching, network connections, etc., because the converged StarWind Virtual SAN allows us to connect high-speed network interfaces between different boxes instead of having to connect SANs via the network, then connect those two clusters together."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"It has been extremely stable for the three years we've been running it."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"StarWind saved us about 80% of our storage costs over our old solution."
"Improves backup time and DR solution."
"No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool."
"SimpliVity works well in a UAT environment.."
"The most valuable features of SimpliVity are the built-in backup and immunity to ransomware."
"We use the Omnicubes to replicate our data to a second datacenter. By having our company data on the Omnicubes, we ensure that all of our data is constantly replicated within the defined intervals to the remote site."
"In terms of HPE SimpliVity's most valuable features, its backup integration is a good thing. Its performance is very good as is the whole integration."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"The built-in backup and quick restore are good features."
"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."
"The console is something that I feel could be improved. There is nothing technically wrong with it, but it can be jazzed up and/or made to be a little more intuitive."
"An update caused a syncing issue and it took over a month to resolve it"
"A great feature would be a wizard and to include a new disk in the SAN. At the moment, including a new disk requires several steps - some that must be done at the OS level and others in each node."
"vSAN's free version does not have a graphical user interface."
"I would say that the documentation is mostly great, however, some features could be expanded upon a bit."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"The documentation could be better."
"The documentation can be better for the free tier."
"I do not see the product really working in productivity at the moment with real loads."
"SimpliVity has very limited options for the virtualization layer."
"We have had some failures out-of-the-box. We have had some failures with the OmniStack module. One thing that we didn't fully understand was how much of the internal memory was used up by the OmniStack piece, which basically makes up SimpliVity."
"I have a free project with SimpliVity deployment in the next three months. What can be improved is that in one or two of these projects, I need a cloud backup for the infrastructure and data. As for the infrastructure of the product as it relates to customer size, it is not very good at this moment in Peru. I need a solution for the cloud. In Peru, it's a three or four solution provider for cloud services."
"The solution could have an optimization site."
"It would be better if we could deploy a hybrid cloud integrated to SimpliVity."
"The installation is quite easy but it could still be improved."
"Not being able to apply ESXi patches as needed has always been a concern, but it has not become a big issue."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"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"
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HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 151 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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