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."As the client had acquired another company some distance away, they were concerned about having a single SAN in one location or the other. StarWind vSAN allowed us to keep a copy of the data local to each site without asking the client to pay for two SANs in addition to the two new servers they needed."
"This software lets us maintain storage redundancy across both of our Hyper-V hosts, so if one goes down the environment fails over to the other and we have minimal to no downtime."
"It has allowed us to save a lot of time and money by letting us create a vSAN within a Windows VM on the environment it controls."
"The instant failover, with vSAN copying data to the second node, allowed for the continuous availability of our applications."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"The software is easy to setup and manage, and the support is excellent."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"This was a great implementation for a small to mid-size business."
"Our clients are very comfortable with the single management of the complete stack. The creation of VM systems is also very fast."
"It is simple and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is that the product has an inborn backup."
"The most valuable features are replication and backup."
"The feature that I like the most is the backup feature embedded inside the HPE SimpliVity. When we have any activity, within five minutes, we have a backup. It also has PDR for performing disaster recovery."
"As a point for optimization on our infrastructure, it works great for us."
"The interface is very good and is very easy to navigate. You can find everything you need from one central place."
"What I appreciate most about HPE SimpliVity is its seamless integration of hardware."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"It would be great to have more automated tooling around managing the iSCSI connections in Windows"
"Regular updates to the software are required, and subtle design changes would be welcome."
"I would love to see more vendor selection to be available for the HCA/vSAN appliances."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"I would like to see different levels of support offered."
"StarWind really needs to market its product more."
"I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards in future versions."
"We had some hardware compatibility issues with the earlier versions of HPE SimpliVity. We upgraded to the latest version a few months ago, and since then, there is no hardware failure, and it is better. They don't provide a portal to create a ticket directly for the HPE SimpliVity. We have a web portal to create a ticket when we have an issue, but for HPE SimpliVity, we need to call the local vendor for support. If they are not able to resolve the issue, they contact the global support, which takes more time. Technology is moving very fast, and everybody nowadays is focusing on the cloud base. In the future, they should integrate it with the cloud base for the backup."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"It could integrate better with other platforms. It's a proprietary solution of HPE, so you are stuck. Before I was running SimpliVity as an independent solution. it wasn't a card and software, so you could put in whatever server, IBM, Dell, etc."
"High availability for large production environments needs to be offered."
"The life-cycle management can be improved."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"Since it is a newer solution, there needs to be more knowledge transfer out there."
"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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