We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"Highly available storage is the most valuable feature. The entire rollout is hyper-converged and requires no extra storage further than the hosts in which Hyper-V is running. Another feature that has been great is the support from StarWind in general. We have their proactive support package on the main cluster that employs Starwind Virtual SAN."
"The ProActive support gives me peace of mind because I am a one man shop, but with the technical support behind me, I feel like more than just one person. We spent two to three hours, depending on what we have to do, always on the phone, and they do not push to end the call."
"It integrates (fully) with VMware and Veeam, my hypervisor, and backup vendors, so for me, all the puzzle pieces simply fit and work smoothly."
"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."
"StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"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."
"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"
"Improvements in documentation and support resources could enhance the user experience."
"Perhaps the developer should refine the product management through PowerShell."
"I am expecting to see it more user-friendly in the future."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"StarWind Command Center's single-pane management solution only works with Hyper-V."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"A better overall view of the different deployments could be beneficial, although this is difficult due to how flexible the solution is."
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Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 183 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 and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, StorMagic SvSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, Red Hat Ceph Storage and DataCore SANsymphony. See our Pivot3 vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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