We performed a comparison between Pivot3 and VxRail 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."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."
"The most useful aspect is the hyper-converged SD SAN and the ease to expand it by just adding cheap SSD or NVME disks."
"VSAN works great; it's very easy to install, configure, and manage."
"We can lose a site or even two of our three, and we would lose no data and have no outage."
"It provides shared storage to multiple hypervisor hosts. Times had changed, however. StarWind Virtual SAN is the “software replaces hardware” for SAN. We have access control and CCTV systems up and running using Microsoft clustering and shared storage"
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The StarWind Virtual SAN provides a clever and unique solution to the Computing Split Brain problem."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"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 most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"You don't have to worry too much about the hardware and you don't have to work on integrating a storage device. We instead have this as an all-in-one solution and everything is available as a box."
"The manageability for controlling the console is the most valuable feature."
"The support has been excellent, especially if you compare it to IBM."
"Being able to perform upgrades and check the system through the VxRail Manager has been very helpful."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The tool's price is competitive and it is easy to use."
"I like the managed updates. They are really nice in VxRail. Everything comes packaged and the updates are much easier than with other solutions that I've had to work with."
"VxRail's technical support is very good."
"I had issues locating the documentation that applied to my version of StarWind vSAN."
"Though I have learned some of the nuances with the upgrading of firmware/windows/etc., it would be nice to have a more efficient method of doing so."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"It runs until it does not - and disaster recovery documentation is sparse and mostly unclear."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"Scaling the product is fairly easy except for the computing aspect. It would entail another appliance. While not a show stopper, it isn't as easy as dropping in a few extra SSDs."
"One main thing this product needs to work on is reporting."
"Management of VSAN itself could be improved. A Web UI for management would be great rather than an application installation. StarWind is testing a command center virtual appliance that I have installed in my environment."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
"Its price could be better."
"The product has high pricing. This particular area needs improvement."
"if we're looking at costs, Nutanix will win because it allows flexibility in the type of hardware you can use."
"What I did not like so much was the amount of VMware that you have to put in your system related to the VxRail."
"One area of the product that could be improved is the support."
"When we have a vulnerability or we need to upgrade VxRail, it takes a long time. It takes eight hours each time we upgrade."
"In the next release, I would like to see our graphical user interface allow us to manage VxRail clusters and everything on a single pane of glass where I can monitor and shut down the server, similar to a VxRail manager."
"Obtaining support was hindered by the frequent changes to the hotline numbers."
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Pivot3 is ranked 25th in HCI while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 121 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 and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VxRail is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Pivot3 vs. VxRail report.
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