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    HPE SimpliVity

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AHPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. HPE acquired SimpliVity for its Omnicube line of products in January 2017.N/A

    Pivot3 Acuity

    Score9 out of 10
    N/APivot3 in Austin, Texas offers Pivot3 Acuity (formerly the vSTAC line of products), a hyperconverged infrastructure solution.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    HPE SimpliVityPivot3 Acuity
    Considered Both Products
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Pivot3
    Chose Pivot3 Acuity
    We reviewed the technology and pricing prior to commencing a POC. Pivot3 looked the best initially and delivered. We did not test the others ourselves.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    HPE SimpliVityPivot3 Acuity
    Small Businesses
    StarWind HCA
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    StarWind HCA
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    Enterprises
    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Score9 out of 10
    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HPE SimpliVityPivot3 Acuity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
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    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    5.5
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    User Testimonials
    HPE SimpliVityPivot3 Acuity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    I only know what I know...which is my IT world. Having two datacenters that were physical servers attached to a SAN that "attempted" to replicate and then migrating. For a SMB small IT shop that happens to have two datacenters already in place...this has been ideal. I can have a generalist maintain the system and we have a private cloud for DR with hardly any effort...the biggest gain by far!
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    Pivot3
    It is only suitable for a vSphere deployment. This particular cluster is best suited for very demanding workloads.
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    Pros
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Deduplication and Compression - SimpliVity keeps the space consumption to a minimum. We currently have 60 servers running virtually and we still have room to grow. This really helps with the backups as we can have longer retention.
    • Backups - Ability to keep backups for longer and to create multiple backup policies for a VM is a breeze. You can have a backup policy for each datastore as well as a separate backup policy for the same VM.
    • Creating Datastores is very easy. No more messing around with LUNS and iSCSI. Just go to the SimpliVity tab and select create datastore and it's done. You can also increase the datastore on the fly as well as have a datastore bigger than 2TB.
    • File level recovery is included as well. The whole backup process in SimpliVity can help you do away with other software.
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    Pivot3
    • Deployment was very easy. Pivot3 staff were involved in the POC, and the transition was fairly smooth.
    • This is an all-flash hyperconverged cluster. It is easily scalable and has excellent performance.
    • We frequently burst internal virtual workloads, and this 5 node cluster can support around 15,000 IOPs and 1 GB/sec of throughput.
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    Cons
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • UI can be less than intuitive at times
    • reporting on the actual amount of space utilised can be misleading
    • Upgrading to additional storage if not specc'd correctly can be very expensive.
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    Pivot3
    • The cluster is actually very easy to use. It might be nice if the dashboard had more detailed metrics, but those are available in a different interface.
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    Usability
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    It sits nicely ontop of VMWare and is easy enough to use. Some improvements to the UI could be done, such as placing buttons where it is expected to have them not in unusual places, so you have to hunt for them. The backup and restore is intuitive and makes things super easy if you need to do a quick rollback. Space savings on multiple VMs and backups means we are backing up more than we need which gives us confidence in what we do. Updating the system is also fairly easy and their support has always been fantastic. They will contact us if they detect any issues, usually before we notice them!
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    Pivot3
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    Support Rating
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Support is very good. With proactive support, you are supported by an engineer in North America who answers the phone and immediately begins assisting with your issue. The folks I have dealt with in the last several years have been very skilled and it is rare to have a ticket open for more than a day or two. Issues affecting production are dealt with appropriately and are escalated within the support organization.
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    Pivot3
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    Alternatives Considered
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    We have decided to sign with Nutanix. We feel they are improving technology and are just a better software now.
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    Pivot3
    We reviewed the technology and pricing prior to commencing a POC. Pivot3 looked the best initially and delivered. We did not test the others ourselves.
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    Return on Investment
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • HPE SimpliVity provided us with the ability to replace our existing infrastructure with a solution that provided better backup and recovery, and an off-site DR solution, at a lower price point than other solutions.
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    Pivot3
    • Definitely a positive ROI. We are not seeing some of the latency issues that were beginning to crop up on our older hardware.
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