PIV vs VMware vSAN Live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PIV
Access your PIV or CAC credentials on your mobile device without a smartcard reader. Use derived credentials stored on your smartphone or tablet, or connect a YubiKey accessory for secure authentication and digital document signing.
- Access PIV/CAC credentials on mobile
- Use derived credentials
- Support for YubiKey accessory
- Electronic PDF document signing
- Secure authentication for enterprise resources
- Compatible with major email apps and browsers
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Workspace ONE PIV-D Manager frees you from the need to carry around a smartcard reader to access your PIV or CAC credentials. Instead, use an integrated solution from a derived credential partner, or use a YubiKey accessory. The derived credential solution is based on PIV or CAC smartcard credentials. Like the credentials on your smartcard, a derived credential is an electronic certificate. Unlike your smartcard credentials, derived credentials can be stored on your smartphone, tablet, or other mobile devices. The derived credential is a standard, defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-157 (NIST SP 800-157). Use Workspace ONE PIV-D Manager instead of your smartcard. • as an authentication factor to retrieve your email, log in to websites, and to access other enterprise resources online. • to sign PDF documents electronically. Workspace ONE PIV-D Manager is compatible with all major mobile email applications and browsers. Workspace ONE PIV-D Manager works with YubiKey. Credentials that are on a YubiKey, can be used the same as credentials stored on your mobile device. Note: Workspace ONE PIV-D Manager does not operate without the required Workspace ONE UEM infrastructure. Contact your IT administrator before installing Workspace ONE PIV-D Manager.
VMware vSAN Live
Monitor your hyperconverged infrastructure from your mobile device. Get instant insights into vSAN clusters, perform health checks, and troubleshoot issues quickly while on the go.
- Overview dashboard
- Health Checks
- Cluster inventory
- Switch between vCenter Servers
- Performance monitoring
- Capacity monitoring
- Alarms monitoring
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VMware vSAN Live provides vSAN users instant insights into their hyperconverged infrastructure environments from their mobile devices. Instead of stopping, signing into a laptop and then logging in remotely to view their vSAN environments, users can monitor their HCI clusters while on the go, troubleshooting in just a few clicks. What’s included in this release? • Overview dashboard of vSAN clusters • Full-featured Health Checks • Cluster inventory view including Fault domain and host status. • Easily switch between different vCenter Servers • Cluster configuration view including vSAN settings and service status. • Full-featured Performance monitoring for VMs and Cluster • Full-featured Capacity monitoring • Full-featured Alarms monitoring VMware vSAN powers VMware’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution, which combines compute virtualization, storage virtualization and storage networking with unified management into a single system running on industry-standard x86 servers. VMware vSAN, primes businesses for growth through seamless evolution, industry-leading deployment flexibility and hybrid-cloud capabilities. vSAN is native to the market-leading hypervisor, vSphere, simplifying HCI adoption by leveraging existing tools and skillsets. vSAN provides customers industry-leading deployment flexibility with over 500+ ReadyNodes, or jointly-certified x86 servers, a turn-key appliance, Dell EMC VxRail, and native services with all of the top public cloud providers: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, IBM, and Oracle. vSAN supports the most hybrid cloud uses cases and provides enterprise-grade, general-purpose infrastructure for VM and container-based applications.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VMware vSAN Live at 5.0 against PIV's 4.2. VMware vSAN Live also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). PIV's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (23 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
VMware vSAN Live holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PIV has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PIV ships an update every 2 months, VMware vSAN Live every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PIV | VMware vSAN Live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 168 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AirWatch, LLC | VMware, Inc. |
Customer experience
PIV
VMware vSAN Live
In-app purchases
PIV
No in-app purchases
VMware vSAN Live
No in-app purchases









